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> The only downside is once you get message-queue-pilled, ... I think this is why email will never die. It's basically turned into a huge message queue. Even v

• pjc50 6y ago
  It always was a message queue in a very literal sense. There's a lot of work in mailer-daemons to ensure that email has as reliable as possible delivery in a store-and-forward system..
  • MR4D 6y ago
    You're correct - I left out the word "universal" accidentally, which would have made my intent much more clear. Thanks for catching that.
• guptaneil 6y ago
  I think this is what a lot of people who complain about Slack don't get. It's just a better message queue for your business. The fact that you can funnel all your business events, regardless of whether they originate from humans or bots, into one place and then each worker (again, either human or bot) can subscribe/filter/react to relevant events is super powerful. However, if you try to use it as a corporate SMS platform or email replacement, you will very quickly feel overwhelmed because both of those message queues are designed for much lower throughput.
• emmelaich 6y ago
  And you can literally use the maildir format for a queue! https://pypi.org/project/dirq/ https://pypi.org/project/dirq/ Perl had the original implementation, and there are implementations in other languages.
  • MR4D 6y ago
    I forgot about that - used to be a cool hack!