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 2 hours 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.

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simonw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Redis has some pretty useful primitive that many languages don't:

- HyperLogLog, bloom filter, other probabilistic data structures

- Geospatial operations on stored points and polygons

- Expiring keys, for creating caches

These aren't in most standard libraries, and the Redis implementations tend to be fast, robust and well understood.

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lpapez 2 hours 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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stingraycharles an hour ago | parent [-]

And you want to embed Redis inside PHP as a solution?? That’s nuts.

	▲	sinpif an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Where else could they store their serialized PHP data structures? (just kidding)