> what is a good alternative to Access (or Fox, I add) Nothing. Access is(was) in fact a worse alternative to Fox: - Much worse DB engine, and that is sayin

> what is a good alternative to Access (or Fox, I add) Nothing. Access is(was) in fact a worse alternative to Fox: - Much worse DB engine, and that is saying a lot (FoxPro db can and get corrupted. A typical functionality that was added to any fox codebase was a utility to fix it) - MUCH MUCH worse programming language (VB) that is neither good as-is, much less as a data-programing language. Fox/dbase is the only data-oriented language that was relatively popular and fit for the use-case. This is by a mile the main point: Is a desert looking for languages that are made for business app/data oriented programing (and much harder looking for something not weird). The main options: Fox/dBase/Informix(? not remember), kdb+, Cobol, SQL(when extended as store procedure lang with loops and that) -- This point is big. Having a good form builder (that is already rare) is not enough to be a real contender for this space. You need a language where making queries is truly nice. In short, you need a language that is `LINQ/Relational` as first-class end-to-end. - If this lang needs an ORM: FAIL. - If this lang needs to compose strings to make a query: FAIL. - If exist "impedance mismatch" between data manipulation/queries and the rest of the lang: FAIL. - It should also support super-advanced types like date, decimal, currency and ideally dimensional units. Ideally algebraic types as today. - It should have a version of Rust `serde, Into/From` traits, for easy conversion between data + formats. - It should look "normal" like python/swift with `LINQ` queries. This is the lang I trying to build: https://tablam.org https://tablam.org