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It's funny how some devs are negative towards SQL but fiercely protective of other much more obscure tools from the 1970s, like unix utilities.
by civilized 3y ago
It's funny how some devs are negative towards SQL but fiercely protective of other much more obscure tools from the 1970s, like unix utilities.
- vlovich123 3y agoIt’s more likely devs are a heterogenous group and you are mixing opinions from unrelated people? Unix utilities from the 1970s are shit. Many of their descendants today aren’t that bad but have lots of problems (eg gawk and gnu sed can do magic in the hands of masters but getting that proficiency is probably not worth the effort). SQL is a problem not because of the era in which it was developed, but because somehow we haven’t evolved any meaningful successors. We have a bunch of dominant programming languages and only 1 data mining language? What’s up with that? Why is there this pretense around only having one language? Multiple languages are healthy because ideas cross-pollinate. How long after MongoDB did it take database vendors/OSS projects to start adding JSON support to their SQL databases?