I too think ORM was the wrong approach. I still enjoy SQLite - its not perfect, but every time I see it being used I get the warm and fuzzies. We should have j

I too think ORM was the wrong approach. I still enjoy SQLite - its not perfect, but every time I see it being used I get the warm and fuzzies. We should have just built better libraries around using/targeting one flavor (SQLite, e.g.), instead of wasting time with bad libraries that transformed one bit of bad code to another bit of bad code and ran it on a database engine that wasn't even doing it right... When you solve a problem, you solve it at its source, not five miles away with a teleprompter. If relational algebra is what we should all have been using, then relational algebra is what we should have been optimizing for, not overpriced SQL database engines. To shamelessly steal from another comment here: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-relational-algebra-is-math/ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-re... https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-is-syntactic-sugar-for-relational-algebra/ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sq...