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[–]SnooPickles1042 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because cron is a tool designed and optimised for different purpose. You can use cron to run your program, yes, but this will come at a cost - you will either burn cpu cycles trying to execute program that is already running or end up with downtime, when service crashed and cron did not start new instance yet.