Don't think the argument is "everything", just the things that can be done within the protocol. There's really not much bloat being added considering the "limit

Don't think the argument is "everything", just the things that can be done within the protocol. There's really not much bloat being added considering the "limitations": https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec I think it wouldn't be unfair to compare it to Golang, which has in my opinion a quite unbloated stdlib which allows you do almost anything without external libraries!