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A comment on Memcached 1.6.

Re:Memcached 1.6 by kator on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:35AM (#22523213)
What I like about Memcached is it's just that, it works, written in C, oh and my goodness uses Perl tests!

It's not re-written every other year in the latest hot language. It chugs along, without embarrassment, doing one thing amazingly well over 17 years...

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Re:Memcached 1.6 by threeseed on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:30AM (#22523615)
> It's not re-written every other year in the latest hot language

What is with all of the weird sniping in this thread ?

There are legitimate reasons why people move to Rust and similar languages e.g. security, maintainability.

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Re:Memcached 1.6 by manigandham on Monday March 09, 2020 @06:47AM (#22524355)
> "It's not re-written every other year in the latest hot language."

What project does this?

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Re:Memcached 1.6 by qatanah on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:35AM (#22524574)
Redis tests are written in tcl! both perl and tcl are awesome!
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Re:Memcached 1.6 by bigiain on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:05AM (#22523320)
It used to be written in Perl, back in the day... I suspect some of those tests are quite likely to be from back then.

I smiled when I read the title, thinking "How cool! Something I was using at a job I left ~16 years ago has _finally_ made it to version 1.6!" :-)

(I suspect the old LiveJournal Perl code probably didn't have it's version numbers carry over into this somewhat more modern version...)

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