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The End of the Redis Adventure

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Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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I would love a story on

"I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years"

What could he mean? What underground programming world is he talking about?

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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@antirez - Thank you for Redis! It's been a joy to use across so many projects.

> However I never wanted to be a software maintainer.

And nothing say that you have to be. There's this perverted view that anytime someone creates a popular FOSS project, they need to dedicate every waking minute to maintaining it. That's neither economically feasible nor psychologically reasonable.

> Redis was the most stressful thing I did in my career, and probably also the most important. I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years, but even if it was not an easy journey, I had the privilege to work and interact with many great individuals.

What is "underground programming world"?

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Thanks for Redis! I never built anything that successful but can relate that being a software maintainer is really hard and many great software developers who build great software, have a hard time with it and not finding it very enjoyable.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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post #4

@antirez - Thank you for Redis! It's been a joy to use across so many projects. > However I never wanted to be a software maintainer. And nothing say that you have to be. There's this perverted view that anytime someone creates a popular FOSS project, they need to dedicate every waking minute to maintaining it. That's neither economically feasible nor psychologically reasonable. > Redis was the most stressful thing I…

> What is "underground programming world"?

If you have to ask... ;)

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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post #3

I would love a story on "I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years" What could he mean? What underground programming world is he talking about?

Probably the roving mobs on Twitter who occasionally brigade project issue trackers and mailing lists. Check out the master/slave post he wrote a while back.

Or just the toxic nature of some open source communities, especially on Reddīt for whatever reason.

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