> Nobody builds chat apps that way. Of course they don't. > The apples to apples comparison would be something using websockets and Redis. Which would be way

> Nobody builds chat apps that way. Of course they don't. > The apples to apples comparison would be something using websockets and Redis. Which would be way more complicated to write, deploy, and maintain, and scale than this little 200-line Durable Objects chat demo... The real point here isn't performance, it's simplicity. But also not having to trade away performance to get simplicity is nice.