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With the Log4j vulnerability, many developers had to dive into their logging configs. You might've encountered variations of Log4j, Logback, SLF4j, log4j-slf4j-impl & log4j-over-slf4j. This article tries to remove some of the confusion and provides an overview of the most common Java-based logging libraries.
Slick has indeed some flaws, and for some projects these might be crucial, such as the query optimisation or some parts of the documentation.
But it's a rather elegant solution for working with a database and I'm sure most of these issues will be solved over time. Imo certainly a library to keep following.