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This makes a lot of sense. In my tinkering with what a radically clarified form of programming would look like, I've come to believe that any such effort would
by beaconstudios 5y ago
This makes a lot of sense. In my tinkering with what a radically clarified form of programming would look like, I've come to believe that any such effort would have to be built around a database at its core. Personally, I think graph databases are a more intuitive fit for how we think about objects and their relationships to each other, but relational dbs are pretty close too.
- convolvatron 5y agothey should be really two views of the same thing?
- beaconstudios 5y agoA graph and tables are similar perspectives but different in a number of really important ways. Tables generally lend themselves best to analysis of homogeneous data within a small number of tables for example, while graph databases make it easy to perform deep queries across many different schemas while still keeping the resultant objects separate.
- CharlesW 5y agoHave you ever checked out FileMaker[0]? It's a database-centric app builder, and I have fond memories of building cool stuff with it back in the 1990s. (FileMaker is 36 years old!) [0] https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/
- beaconstudios 5y agoI'm aware of its existence but have never really used it unfortunately.