The logger meets linux-kernel

any new proposal, by definition, is going to have to start behind this as they will first have to define a standard and write software to handle it before it does any good to worry about software generating structured info.

I actually have seen software that generates structured syslog messages. I agree it's not common, but then again, I don't believe that any number of 'structured logging proposals' is ever going to solve the problem of the programmer being lazy and not writing good structured logs (they can write bad structured logs easily, it happens all the time on windows in the eventlog)