[sverhagen]

Well, SQL, and connecting it to a UI, lends itself to a declarative approach, and I guess that's just simpler to catch in a simple form builder etc. Heck, MS Access did it twenty years ago (and so did many others). But for other things one ends up trying to capture imperative code (which is just very flexible and expressive) in a simple editor. From what I remember from the experience, you end up adding pockets of complexity in different finicky controls, that then have to all with together, while the actual code equivalent would just be a few lines of code and done. I don't think I'm speaking to it very eloquently, but I was just shocked, at the time, how little progress was made, as an industry, relative to (I'm gonna say it again) MS Access. This was a year or so ago, I'm sure you're making progress!