gecko,

Our design was not modeled on any existing library's approach to configuration. It was designed based on what we perceived the needs of the application to be.

I think making claims that the configuration is "ridiculous" isn't constructive conversation, especially when you haven't really backed up why you consider it to be so. After three lines of wiring, a caller creates a self-managing client instance via:

    var client = cluster.CreateClient();

I don't see how this can be considered ridiculous.

A simple comparison to one line of code (which, I might add, doesn't explain where the `configuration` variable comes from) is not really thorough. I'd be keen to see what it takes to get the configuration loaded and what extra boilerplate is required to handle and manage the MemcachedClient.

Thanks for the comment.