I truly, honestly believe that as of today many people just cannot get to their data.
For end users that is having good web/UI tools to help them. Another part of it is allowing programmers to express their ideas about data in a better way - It should feel like you are expressing normal program logic concepts that just happen to be backed by reliable, durable, fast, cached storage.
Theres a renaissance going on now, where lots of ideas from functional programming are filtering out and being adopted..thats wonderful for our craft. We spend a lot of energy comparing one language to another, but pretty much accept without question that SQL as the only-one-true-way of handling data. Or we make a big framework to wrap that in objects, and the framework generates SQL.
Databases could have much much better programming facilities out of the box, including an expressive modern extensible language and event callback mechanisms. It should be easy to just write a usable web site without stepping out of that language - optimizing the common usage scenario.
There must be a better way, it is time to make SQL obsolete.
If your interested in hacking on something like this as open source get in touch,
For end users that is having good web/UI tools to help them. Another part of it is allowing programmers to express their ideas about data in a better way - It should feel like you are expressing normal program logic concepts that just happen to be backed by reliable, durable, fast, cached storage.
Theres a renaissance going on now, where lots of ideas from functional programming are filtering out and being adopted..thats wonderful for our craft. We spend a lot of energy comparing one language to another, but pretty much accept without question that SQL as the only-one-true-way of handling data. Or we make a big framework to wrap that in objects, and the framework generates SQL.
Databases could have much much better programming facilities out of the box, including an expressive modern extensible language and event callback mechanisms. It should be easy to just write a usable web site without stepping out of that language - optimizing the common usage scenario.
There must be a better way, it is time to make SQL obsolete.
If your interested in hacking on something like this as open source get in touch,
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