3 engineers on Hacker News describe using Log4j first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I was pretty horrified to learn that log4j makes network calls, was even surprised to hear it parses log strings.”
regret · production · jsmythe45 · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had switched away from log4j in favor of slf4j / logback. These were written by the author of log4j. We switched because they were significantly simpler than log4j.”
regret · production · tomohawk · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use log4j and still spend a GDP on splunk sucking in files.”
regret · production · datavirtue · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?