Comment by throwway120385

It depends a lot on the language, but in my field libraries that have their own logging implementation and that don't provide hooks to override it cause big problems for me because I send all the logs to the same central logging client that forwards it to the same central logging server for aggregation. Your logging probably dumps it to a file, or it writes it to STDOUT, or something similar, in which case now I have to pipe all of that data in two places by doing something hacky.

There are some language ecosystems that have good logging systems like Java which I would be totally fine with. But systems languages like C/C++ that don't have a core concept of a "log message" are a pain to deal with when the library author decides to stream some text message somewhere. Which is probably a good argument for not using those languages in some circles, but sometimes you have to use what you have.

So it's not really a blanket "don't do it" but you should carefully consider whether there's some well-known mechanism for application authors to intake and manage your logging output, and if that doesn't exist you should provide some hooks or consider not logging at all except with some control.