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Hot takes: SQL is good. Great, in fact. Not just in what it's capable of doing, but in form. It has warts, yeah, but over the years I've been writing it I've r
by slotrans 3y ago
Hot takes: SQL is good. Great, in fact.
Not just in what it's capable of doing, but in form. It has warts, yeah, but over the years I've been writing it I've realized most of them are there for a reason. To me it's more than useful, it's beautiful. It's the absolute last thing I want a replacement for.
- Abekkus 3y agoHow do we ever hope to differentiate between useful evangelism and stockholm syndrome? Either way, I'm probably learning a lot of postgresql this year. I do really wish we had at least settled on one data format instead of having enough differences between PL data and DB data to start building ORMs.
- ellisv 3y agoUnsurprisingly, not everything is intuitive. There are language nuances that can surprise and frustrate users but are often well thought out. It’s exceedingly rare to have a SQL query written 20 years ago that couldn’t be run today, and written today it may be the same or very similar to one written long ago. It’s hard to say the same for other programming languages.