[sodapopcan]

Ya I use Ecto which is the defacto Elixir SQL abstraction. It's heavily inspired by LINQ though only works with SQL. In any event, it also starts with FROM and I always end up writing my selects last. I've just never felt particularly annoyed writing them first in SQL (and I've written a LOT of raw SQL) I'd just do it without thinking about it. Never thought of it as a big deal.

The big problem with SQL AFAIC is its poor (really complete lack of) composability.