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In that first decade of learning to code, "logging" was not a concept. Something so painfully useful that seems so simple until you dig in...

@worldsendless it’s definitely a tool that I have yet to take grasp. I have worked mostly in Python and the projects I worked on already had logging set up by others.

@derickflorian Yeah, I have a few of those, too. It's nice when someone has done some of the heavy lifting for you.

@worldsendless When did you learn to code? I'm pretty sure it was used in the mid 90s, but you had to roll your own system back then (which was true for so many things that are now done by libraries)

@winenous Oh, it's been around since before "software engineering" became a thing. But logging is not something taught in beginner courses or undergrad CS courses. It is far from "hello world". It is like an extra-curricular topic.

@worldsendless IME even in professional software development it is often something of a token activity or unnecessary chore

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