I mean… Fundamentally they've done the right thing for the wrong reason. Yes, code as database instead of code as text files is an old idea that has been trie

I mean… Fundamentally they've done the right thing for the wrong reason. Yes, code as database instead of code as text files is an old idea that has been tried many times and never really works. …buuuut, if you look at the places where “not as text” coding works, like blueprint in unreal, you’ll see the successful projects that do this make a new language that takes non text input to the compiler / runtime. So, building your own language (which is what they did here) to run in your database-ide is actually going to work. There are examples of other things in this category that have worked before. Thus, the work probably seems quite promising when viewed naively. …but, I think any conclusions about datalog or general applications of the approach to existing text based programming languages are probably misguided.