glog VS cargo-crev

I started a poll on r/golang with these four candidates, but also came to know about glog which was a go port of a C++ project by Google. I used that option in the poll conducted on LinkedIn.

Other than print and formatted print to stdout and stderr, what more do you need? I adapted much of the glog rationale into a logging wrapper. Allowing many thousands of unneeded lines from Logrus to be avoided. https://github.com/golang/glog

check out glog, it supports flags out out the box

By globals, I mean global resources outside of the codes namespace. It may not even be a resource in the process, such as a log file or temporary directory or a database. If you have two versions of a crate in their completely separate worlds, and call both of their init_logging() functions to log to a file specified by an environment variable, things are likely to go pear shaped when they stomp over each others log file.

I'm a Rust novice, but the example I tripped over in Go was https://github.com/golang/glog. It has a module level init() initialization routine that makes calls to the stdlib flags package, manipulating the default command line flags (a global resource). If you ended up with multiple versions of glog via transient dependencies, your program would panic on startup as the second version's init() would make calls only allowed to be called once. Rust thankfully avoids this particular one by requiring initialization to be called by main() (apart from the hack described in the article).

There is no better way than looking at your older brothers and learning from them: stdlib log, glog, logrus, zerolog, log15 (eth fork)...

Also glog is the name of Google logging library which is confusing. https://github.com/golang/glog

the 5th hit looks like something made 6-8 yrs ago which would have worked: https://github.com/golang/glog

Read similar repos, compare, learn: https://github.com/rs/zerolog https://christine.website/blog/ln-the-natural-logger-2020-10-17 https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus https://github.com/golang/glog https://github.com/nikandfor/tlog (this one is mine)

In other cases it may be more documented, such as Golangs baked-in telemetry.

There should be better ways to check these problems. The best I have found so far is Crev https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/. It's most used implementation is Cargo-crev https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev, but hopefully it will become more required to use these types of tools. Certainty and metrics about how many eyes have been on a particular script, and what expertise they have would be a huge win for software.

The main problem the author is talking about is actually about version updates, which in Maven as well as crates.io is up to each lib's author, and is not curated in any way.

There's no technical solution to that, really. Do you think Nexus Firewall can pick up every exploit, or even most? How confident of that are you, and what data do you have to back that up? I don't have any myself, but would not be surprised at all if "hackers" can easily work around their scanning.

However, I don't have a better approach than using scanning tools like Nexus, or as the author proposes, use a curated library repository like Debian is doing (which hopefully gets enough eyeballs to remain secure) or the https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev project (manually reviewed code) also mentioned. It's interesting that they mention C/C++ just rely on distros providing dynamic libs instead which means you don't even control your dependencies versions, some distro does (how reliable is the distro?)... I wonder if that could work for other languages or if it's just as painful as it looks in the C world.

For instance, the worst company imaginable may be in charge of software that was once FOSS, and they may change absolutely nothing about it, so it should be fine. However, if a small update is added that does something bad, you should know about it immediately.

The solution seems to be much more clearly in the realm of things like crev: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev/

Wherein users can get a clear picture of what dependencies are used in the full chain, and how they have been independently reviewed for security and privacy. That's the real solution for the future. A quick score that is available upon display everytime you upgrade, with large warnings for anything above a certain threshold.

The metrics on crates.io are a useful sniff test, but ultimately you need to review things yourself, or trust some contributors and reviewers. Some projects, like cargo crev or cargo vet can help with the process.

You can use cargo-geiger or cargo-crev to check for whether people you trusted (e.g. u/jonhoo ) trust this crate.

There is a similar idea being explored with https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev - you trust a reviewer who reviews crates for trustworthiness, as well as other reviewers.

[cargo-crev](https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev) looks like a good step in the right direction but not really commonly used.

'cargo crev' makes this kind of workflow possible: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev

The crev folks themselves are no fans of PGP but need a way to security identify that you are in fact the review author, so that's where the id generation comes in. Ultimately crev is just a bunch of repos with text files you sign with IDs. The nice property is that you can chain these together into a web of trust and it's unfortunate that vet doesn't just use the same signed files on repos model as a foundation because even if they don't trust anyone else, we could turn around and trust them.