Comment by ivan_gammel

In Java world logging in libraries is effectively a no-op unless explicitly enabled by user, so side effects are negligible. And it actually does make sense, e.g. when a library is offering a convenient abstraction level over i/o, parsing or other stuff with initially unknown failure modes, where some logs may help clarifying the picture beyond handling an exception or error code. The way logging is done there is the art of good software design, which has never been lost (it may have not reached other platforms though). So I disagree with you and some other commenters: strict Verbot is dogmatic, and good design is never dogmatic.