ZeroLog.Core ?

Hi there! I’m in love with your zero allocation implementation since I’m a big fan of Span and stackalloc 😃 I was in the process of doing that myself and stumble upon your great framework. And then I had a thought: It would be super great to have a ZeroLog.Core nuget implementing the core of a logging framework, then all the existing logging framework could re-implement their string management with this package and boom, you made the world sustainable again!

[ltrzesniewski]

Actually, it doesn’t emit IL at runtime. v1 did that, but we removed it in v2.

The IL you see is “emitted” at compile time (see https://github.com/ltrzesniewski/InlineIL.Fody).

[ltrzesniewski]

Well, in that case, I think ZeroLog already does what you want. 🙂

You can consider its primary job is the first point you mention, but it is still designed to be extensible (your second point):

• You can supply your own appender that derives from ZeroLog.Appenders.Appender (or StreamAppender) if you need to add a new sink.
• You can supply your own formatter ZeroLog.Formatting.Formatter if you need another log format. We may implement logfmt or ndjson formats in the future.

As for your first point, there are a few ways to extend it as well:

• You can write extension methods on LogMessage for your own types (we have a few of those in our codebase).
• You can use an LogMessage.AppendOperation<T> in interpolated strings.

That’s something I should document I suppose. 🙂