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0 pointsbravura13y ago0 comments

Wait, you found it too difficult and time-consuming to install software, so instead you wrote software?

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I think he mains maintaining a mongodb installation, which is not trivial.

Same reason people use SQLite instead of MySQL or Postgres. Don't want to have to deal with keeping a database server up.

Exactly. This way, I get my schemaless datastore without leaving the stdlib, and it doesn't eat my data at unsuspecting times.

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0 pointsbravura13y ago0 comments

Wait, you found it too difficult and time-consuming to install software, so instead you wrote software?

I think he mains maintaining a mongodb installation, which is not trivial.

Same reason people use SQLite instead of MySQL or Postgres. Don't want to have to deal with keeping a database server up.

Exactly. This way, I get my schemaless datastore without leaving the stdlib, and it doesn't eat my data at unsuspecting times.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse