https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6747#issuecomm...
“I wanted a task queue and wanted to build it on X”
Doesn’t matter that a job queue makes no sense on X. When X looks like it’s not active they build it on Y.
Neither X nor Y have any property that’d make it good for a job queue, but popularity contest drove adoption, not technical merit.
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6747#issuecomm...
“I wanted a task queue and wanted to build it on X”
Doesn’t matter that a job queue makes no sense on X. When X looks like it’s not active they build it on Y.
Neither X nor Y have any property that’d make it good for a job queue, but popularity contest drove adoption, not technical merit.