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> 85% of the application lived in SQL and there was no automation I'm curious and I'm bad at SQL but I remember some kind of modern DSL that would translate a

> 85% of the application lived in SQL and there was no automation I'm curious and I'm bad at SQL but I remember some kind of modern DSL that would translate a "higher-level" language to SQL. Wasn't there some kind of translation and refactoring combined to automation to simplify this job?

austin-cheney 2y ago
No, everything was very manual and in SQL stored procedures. The job was looking for a JavaScript developer. When they laid me off I really didn’t miss the work. After that I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t do JavaScript for employment ever again because in absolutely every corporate JavaScript job, over 15 years of experience, everyone tried to hide from the code behind layers of unnecessary abstractions. I got tired of the negligent incompetence and extreme insecurity of people fumbling over the work. Now I do something different.