Author here. I don’t think ASCII is the right comparison. True, it would be really hard for anything to compete with Git because a lot of infrastructures we have are already deeply integrated with Git. But think about x86 vs. ARM and how AI might change our ways of producing code.
@antirez I'm the author of the post. It's a privilege to see your comment here. Thank you so much for the comment, and of course, Redis!
Sorry about those errors. I've fixed them in the story.
A follow-up question about Twitter if you don't mind: did you actually fly to Twitter HQ in California and design the timeline cache with Rob Pointer, who was a Twitter employee at the time? How did that happen?