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That has nothing to do with node. You have a lot of situations where a dedicated job queue makes sense

The reason people are using these paid queue services is because Node sucks. Isn't it better to use an open source library or adult backend stack which solved this problem 30 years ago?

Trigger is literally open source. That has nothing to do with how mature the node ecosystem is. If you want in-process queue systems you have a lots of other mature options. Trigger is a dedicated queue system, it runs in its own process and can be used from any language through its API. You seem to talk confidently about a topic I don’t think you understand.

Go has lots of mature in-process queue systems, yet River exists, because in lots of situation it makes perfect sense to have your job queue in its own process

Have you actually tried using the open-source self hostable version of trigger? It seems to only exist in order to check a "we're open source yay" box.

It's missing lots of features like sleeping on waits, warm starts etc.

Yeah, I understand this topic really well, actually: https://github.com/agoodway/pgflow

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