LINQ is far more useful than just as language sugar over SQL. The amount of boilerplate it removes is substantial for anything working with sequences. I actuall

LINQ is far more useful than just as language sugar over SQL. The amount of boilerplate it removes is substantial for anything working with sequences. I actually havent used the SQL backend for it. But since I often work with large collections of heterogenous data outside of a DB, I use it all the time to transform and filter collections in ways that would be very tedious in other languages. Libraries can get you some of the way there, but the language integration is what makes it so painless.