Not the creator, but I can immediately see the use in, at least small projects. Recently I made a little script that runs every now and then and I had to store

Not the creator, but I can immediately see the use in, at least small projects. Recently I made a little script that runs every now and then and I had to store the data manually (echo $val > file.txt) which is not that bad. But not having to do that little file-juggle might be the use case.