From 11b5ad158ae4f8c0e81dada21858fd635a5c6beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: able <abl3theabove@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:22:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Post probably

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+You might have noticed the language used in my blog post is not any other existing language.
+
+It is what is called an IDL or Interface Definition Language.
+Typically IDLs are used to define interchange formats for programs, like I use it for.
+
+These languages are used to define how data is laid out in byte format.
+
+In this post I will be explaining and defining a log format.
+
+Typical logging systems have multiple severities of logs.
+
+The [log](https://docs.rs/log/latest/log) crate for rust operates using five different log levels
+```
+    Error
+    Warn
+    Info
+    Debug
+    Trace
+```
+
+The [winston](https://www.npmjs.com/package/winston) library for javascript uses the following levels.
+```
+    error
+    warn
+    info
+    http
+    verbose
+    debug
+    silly
+```
+
+
+There is also [this](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5424) RFC which I won't read
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+I am partial to the `log` method so let us adopt that format for log levels.
+We should also assign a numerical value to each log level starting with the most important to the least important.
+```rust
+enum LogLevel {
+    Error = 0,
+    Warn = 1,
+    Info = 2,
+    Debug = 3,
+    Trace = 4,
+}
+```
+Thats a bit much and adding a new level is not an automatic increment thing.
+
+Lets introduce a new concept to the language called an attribute.
+```rust
+@auto_increment
+enum LogLevel {
+    Error = 0,
+    Warn,
+    Info,
+    Debug,
+    Trace,
+}
+```
+The `auto_increment` attribute finds all enum variants with a number and increments by one whole number until it finds an already assigned number or there are no more variants.
+
+This reduces the chance of messing up aswell as makes you just type less.
+Syntax sugar and all that.
+
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  ˈbaɪbəl
 
- ## In order
- [Unix and mice](Unix;%20Your%20Mouse%20are%20a%20file.md)
+## In order
+[Unix and mice](Unix;%20Your%20Mouse%20are%20a%20file.md)
 
- [Files???](Files;%20an%20overview.md)
+[Files???](Files;%20an%20overview.md)
 
- [Driver Dependencies](Catch-22;%20an%20overview.md)
+[Driver Dependencies](Catch-22;%20an%20overview.md)
 
- [Storing Hell in my heart](ATA,%20NVMe,%20SATA,%20Floppy%20Disks%20and%20Optical%20Drives;%20Storing%20my%20own%20personal%20hell.md)
-
- 
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+[Storing Hell in my heart](ATA,%20NVMe,%20SATA,%20Floppy%20Disks%20and%20Optical%20Drives;%20Storing%20my%20own%20personal%20hell.md)