There have been proposals to have global state in programming languages which function like databases with the advantages of monitoring/persistence/naming etc,

There have been proposals to have global state in programming languages which function like databases with the advantages of monitoring/persistence/naming etc, but also retain the modularity of local state. https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/local-state-is-harmful/ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/local-state-is-ha... https://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/local-state-is-poison/ https://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/local-state-is-p...