logrus VS afero

It's some sort of logging system well explained by Alex Edwards in Let’s Go Further. As stated, we could have used logrus or any other popular logging system in Go.

Option 2, please. You may not have been around for the logrus debacle, but it was a giant pain.

For the example I’m using the very popular logrus library and then I’m setting the log formatter to be JSON

For choosing the candidates for the poll, I didn't do any thorough research. I was looking for a library to use in my project at work, and I ended up at sirupsen/logrus which was already being used by one of the dependencies in that project.

I contribute to OSS as part of my job on the regular. The company is good about contributing upstream, signing CLAs, and all that. We still work against private forks for two main reasons: 1. Some changes that we need are not accepted by maintainers based on philosophical or architectural reasons that we can’t otherwise work around. You’re beholden to then unless you publicly fork the repo which has other legal/PR overhead for the company and OSS political implications. 2. Maintainers in the past have taken down repos, renamed repos, or changed the licensing on repos that have left us in a lurch. We always build against our own private forks because we need predictability and can’t be beholden to some other party for business continuity. We sync them down from the public upstream at our leisure.

If they change the case on their username on the other hand, the Go ecosystem explodes: https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/570#issuecomment-3...

Like, for example, some projects importing logrus with a capital L and some with a lowercase L, and go modules having no way to reconcile the two: https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/553

Ugh. Wish people would stop using logrus. It’s in maintenance mode and slow, especially its stack tracing.

Probably use something like https://github.com/spf13/afero

Afero filesystem for various fs utils, abstractions and in-memory fs for testing. For example, instead of os.Remove("file") use filesystem.Api().Remove("file")

Literally I'm making a library for this purpouse. It allows you to make project generators using templates and custom scripts. If you want you can collaborate xd. Answering your question I use a library named afero. owl afero

Not to be a downer but does this do anything afero doesn't?

You could take a look at afero in memory file system. It should solve your problem as long as you can keep the files in memory.

It also lacks consistency and sometimes reliability. I actually reached out with bug fixes and offered to improve things, but they had a different plan for the project. HackpadFS adds the shared test suite that was missing from afero.

afero - A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go