| ▲ | freakynit an hour ago |
| Probably because Redis gives you a very well-defined/understood set of rich data structures with built-in behavior like TTL, atomic operations, eviction, and persistence. These things are otherwise usually scattered across native types, helper classes, or entirely separate libraries. |
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| ▲ | stingraycharles an hour ago | parent [-] |
| It doesn’t seem like the right tool for the job, though. Aren’t your own programming language’s constructs much more well-defined / understood ? |
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| ▲ | freakynit 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Language's own native data-structures are generally much more capable and vast. 99%+ developers use only a very limited set of those capabilities. This approach packages those most used ones into a nice, consistent DSL. It's similar in effect to what busybox does to shell utilities, though the motives are different. | |
| ▲ | lpapez 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I use PHP. None of the language tools or constructs available to me are adequate. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/ | | |
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