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by kentonv 2087 days ago
> Nobody builds chat apps that way.

Of course they don't.

> The apples to apples comparison would be something using websockets and Redis.

Which would be way more complicated to write, deploy, and maintain, and scale than this little 200-line Durable Objects chat demo...

The real point here isn't performance, it's simplicity. But also not having to trade away performance to get simplicity is nice.