Errors can be recovered automatically sometimes but at the level at which you log them you don't know if that's going to happen. I therefore think this suggestion is not easy to follow.
Even if your libraries use nothing but exceptions or return codes you still end up with levels. You still end up with logs that have information in them that gets ignored when it shouldn't be because there's so much noise that people get tired of all the "cries of wolf."
Occasionally one is at a high enough level to know for sure that something needs fixing and for this I use "CRITICAL" which is my code for "absolutely sure that you can't ignore this."
IMO it's about time AI was looking at the logs to find out if there was something we really need to be alerted to.
Seems extremely dangerous to be doing those kinds of things with software from someone politically hostile. Perhaps the EU should be weaning itself off that too?
The first computer I touched, and I'm not that old, had 1kb RAM (ZX81) so the pico is a supercomputer next to that. It has all happened gradually but in a way I feel a little bit sorry for the whippersnappers that haven't experienced the incredible advancements. Looking back is different to remembering how one looked forward and how the actuality beat one's wildest dreams.
There are still older people than me who experienced an even steeper curve but I hope that my daughter will enjoy the same thing - to live in a massively better world than the one she started in.
It's not better in the human ways - still lots of fighting and evil - but it's great to be able to stay in touch with one's family over huge distances and to be able to make boredom vanish at the touch of a button, to want to fix something and instantly get 100 videos of how to do it. To find some bit of code extremely boring to write and to get a machine to write it.
People who are new to the business should be able to challenge the assumptions that the business has built up over time and ceased to question.
They are the most insecure, however, no knowing who will be annoyed, shown up, embarassed by that question if it suggests that some past decisions were wrong.
I find it wryly amusing that build times have become an issue with javascript. We had all these problems with large C++/C based operating systems and went through all of this thought.
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