[joelbluminator]

> Redis you can definitely do without.

This seems to suggest otherwise https://hex.pm/packages/redix, Why is the redis client is so popular in Elixir world? For such a small community 3+ million downloads is huge.

[pdimitar]

Hint: it's most likely habit.

It's no accident that there's even a library that emulates OOP patterns in Elixir.