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Hello HN! This is a blog post about EdgeDB 1.0 Alpha 1. It's a new object-relational database, focused on type safety, usability, and developer ergonomics. W

• bvrmn 8y ago
  Can you publish benchmark code?
  • 1st1 8y ago
    Yes, it's linked from the article: https://github.com/edgedb/webapp-bench https://github.com/edgedb/webapp-bench
• Rotareti 8y ago
  I like this a lot! What a great evolution of Postgresl/SQL. I also love what you do for the Python/asyncio ecosystem. Congratulations on the release! Their is one point I'd like to address, though. It's still a real pain to write queries from within other programming languages. You either write them within strings, which sucks, because you lose all support from the editor (highlighting, auto-formatting, auto-suggestions, etc.), or you use an ORM, which I think is not a good solution to the problem. If you want to boost "developer ergonomics", make editor plugins for EdgeQL first class citizens. My 2 cents. :)
  • 1st1 8y ago
    Thank you! > You either write them within strings, which sucks, because you lose all support from the editor (highlighting, auto-formatting, auto-suggestions, etc.), or you use an ORM, which I think is not a good solution to the problem. If you want to boost "developer ergonomics", make editor plugins for EdgeQL first class citizens. My 2 cents. :) Yes, that's exactly what we are going to do. We'll obviously add a query builder to edgedb-python and other language bindings. We also plan to reflect the DB schema to your language of choice so that the query builder is fully typed. Then IDEs will have no problem with auto-completing your code. Another thing we're considering is implementing the Language Server Protocol for EdgeDB.
    • Rotareti 8y ago
      That sounds awesome! :)