Should I log messages to stderr or stdout?

Regular output (the actual result of running the program) should go on stdout, things like you mentioned (e.g. diagnostic, notice, warning, error) on stderr.

If there is no “regular output”, I would say that it doesn’t really matter which one you choose. You could argue that the logging is the only output, so that should go to stdout. Or you could argue that it is still “exceptional information” which should go to stderr.

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