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Don't mock slog

October 25, 2023

Are you excited to hit the ground running with Go 1.21’s new log/slog package? That means testing it, right? And testing means mocks, right? Not so fast! Don’t mock slog! In my latest video, I talk about the problems with mocking, and the super simple alternative you can use when testing code that uses the new slog package.

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