Well, I get that this is a RethinkDB blog but I can't help to see this as another example of this "virus" that has gotten hold of some segments of the software development world making for utterly bloated and pointlessly complex solutions to simple problems. I call it the "OOP+Framework 'Hello World'" syndrome. It seems nobody can write code without adding layers of classes, loading-up the call stack and megabytes of libraries.

In this particular case a simple C program logging to a comma-delimited text file, or, if you want to splurge, JSON-formatted text file would have done the job.

But, I get it, proposing not everything requires OOP is heresy. What was I thinking?