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java logging confuses the crap out of me. so many libs and apis it's a bit of a mess

I always default to slf4j and log4j2 (async logging).

it’s a dumpster fire, and a laughable case in point of how poorly choices were offered, logging, other logging, then logging compatibility…

Common guys, it isn't that bad considering the years that Java already has on its shoulders.

assume you are joking Bruno.. I have been using KotlinLogging lately, I like that thing...

Not joking. But haven't used Kotlin-logging yet. I'm sure it is an improvement over other frameworks. In time, things end up being replaced with something better, hopefully.

Apparently, Kotlin-logging is built on the top of slf4j.

Because it is a wrapper around slf4j, I'm assuming that if you use Kotlin-logging one still needs to add a specific slf4j bridge like log4j, log4j2, Java logging, logback, etc

and that was a hassle I thought, astounding to me that there were not simple docs for adding it to a gradle-based build

but once I got it working, I do like the kotlin sugary-ness of being able to use $s and the fact that there is no work to only output if log enabled (what logback brought)..

Yeah, agreed. I had to do this just now, went with log4j. 

running unit tests all the time over and over

for the pain of logging in J/K, at least we have good loggers, when writing Swift, you are still stuck with NSLog which is a complete joke

not really any better than a print statement

<@U0JRS2YUB>, if you intend to use threading or use an async toolkit/framework, make sure you use log4j2 or any other logger that supports async logging otherwise you might block your threads. I default to log4j2 because of this.

<@U0GM63858> i use compile "org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.25"

<https://github.com/bmsantos/vertx-graphql-example/blob/master/pom.xml>

And simple async conf:
<https://github.com/bmsantos/vertx-graphql-example/blob/master/graphql-service/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml>

<@U0JRS2YUB>, nice game. Love Terraria. Will have to give it a try :)

thanks :slightly_smiling_face: don't expect gameplay right now, it's just a tech demo state atm

thanks for the logging stuff, good thing you mentioned something, i was going with slf4j and log4j1.2...got it working withh your example now