| > In any case, I don't see any trend where a general-purpose programming language will include DB SQL as 1st-class. Even the recent languages like Rust and Zig don't have basic SQLite3 db persistence as convenient built-in syntax. There is a trend, but you’ll have to look further off the beaten path than even Zig to find it. Languages like Eve [0] tried to do this circa 2015 in the tradition of Datalog. Code was written in “blocks” that resembled Prolog horn clauses, but which featured set semantics on selected records. Natural joins happened automatically on records using identifiers. The whole language was actually a database! Eve died [1], but you’ll see many such projects that have the same ethos in communities in the web, such as this one [2]. There aren’t a lot of users of these languages, but this is where a lot of big ideas are percolating right now. And we can verify it’s a trend because the hallmark of all CS trends, the formation of a conference, has made itself known in this area [3]. 0: http://witheve.com/ 1: https://groups.google.com/g/eve-talk/c/YFguOGkNrBo?pli=1 2: https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/ 3: https://www.hytradboi.com/ |