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by 0x457 14 days ago
Can you name a single language that can talk to redis and doesn't have these in a form of a library that integrates with an app better than mystical embedded redis?

Every language you can talk to redis most likely has a library to do that, and it probably works much better with the rest of application than "embedded redis". If it doesn't, it probably has C-FFI and there is "fast, robust and well understood" implementations in C.
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simonw 14 days ago
Sure. But if Redis was embeddable you'd get a robust C-FFI style implementation of those data structures which has been tested a lot more than some random library that has almost no existing users or active maintenance.

(I'm not personally sold on embedded Redis myself, but the question was "Aren’t your own programming language’s constructs much more well-defined / understood?")

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0x457 9 days ago
> you'd get a robust C-FFI style implementation of those data structures which has been tested a lot more than some random library that has almost no existing users or active maintenance.

What are these mystical random libraries you're talking about? There is a solid C implementation of every data structure on this planet.

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simonw 8 days ago
Show me a better C library for HyperLogLog than the one baked into Redis.

I went looking and the pure C ones all appeared to be untouched in 10+ years - https://github.com/ivitjuk/libhll and https://github.com/avz/hll for example.

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