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Re:My Logging Best Practices (2020) by adrianmsmith on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:45AM (#28761030)
Of course in an ideal scenario that's the case. Nevertheless programs do sometimes just "crash" without an error message, or maybe they hang and never produce any output due to an infinite loop, or excessive memory allocation and GC overhead, etc. Logging what the program was attempting to do is useful in those scenarios.
Re:My Logging Best Practices (2020) by sagichmal on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:14PM (#28768746)
Yes, it’s useful, but that occasional usefulness is substantially outweighed by it’s perpetual cost.