Plurrrr

A few months ago, a proposal was introduced for adding a structured logging library in Go. At present, Go has a minimal and bare-bones log package which works all right for basic use cases. However, the current library has a few shortcomings that this proposal aims to solve:

• Emitting logs with different severity/levels
• Structured output: Makes parsing of logs harder
• Logging a set of common fields/attributes
• Difficult to have a log object inside libraries as each service could have its log implementation.

This article details on how frustrating Rust can be if you approach it with a functional programming mindset and why Rust has no choice but to frustrate you.

In this series of articles, I’d like to walk you through the default diff algorithm used by Git. It was developed by Eugene W. Myers, and the original paper is available online. While the paper is quite short, it is quite mathematically dense and is focussed on proving that it works. The explanations here will be less rigorous, but will hopefully be more intuitive, giving a detailed walk-through of what the algorithm actually does and how it works.