On: SystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp

[withinboredom]

You also have to parse a binary protocol byte by byte, or at least the bytes you care about. But the question is, why are we parsing logs at all?

[lavabiopsy → withinboredom]

Journald doesn't actually parse the log strings. Any parseable entities are stored in separate fields (see `man systemd.journal-fields`)