Feature request: improve logging UX locally about log HOT 4 OPEN

I'm thinking to leave the environment variable to the caller, and instead create a setup func. A snippet for users would be like:

if os.GetEnv("MY_APP_ENV") == "development" {
  log.SetFormatter(log.FormatForTerminalWithEmoji)
}

The default would be log.FormatForGoogle if that naming makes sense. It's a func so user could bring their own as well.

And I don't think that the logging library is responsible for cleaning \u0026, but the formatter for terminal use doesn't need to escape these sequences. It can print them exactly as they are, I mean &. [Moved to #15]

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I would welcome such pull request, emojis are definitely in scope. 🙂 (Sorry for the delayed response @steebchen , in future it'll be better. As of now I'm back at it!)

I don't think heuristics over well-known env vars would work predictably - the lib is not specific to Cloud Run only.

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Fair enough, I'm not sure how one could detect a local environment. Maybe via a custom env var 'ENV=development', which you could just set in your dev scripts if you wanted to.

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I'm thinking to leave the environment variable to the caller, and instead create a setup func.

Ah, that is a smart idea. I like it!

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