Standards are only useful if they’re widely adopted, and adoption is only effective if the available tooling facilitates it. I imagine SI units would not have been too popular when they were introduced if you had to build your own scales to weigh things in Kilograms! If you use OpenTelemetry in Go, you’ll be familiar with the challenges of configuring instrumentation libraries to automatically generate telemetry from well-known open source components. Due to the compiled nature of the lan...
