[fjfaase]

I think it is important to realize that relational, object-oriented and structured data (such as XML and JSON) are all implementation of an often far more richer data model. Would it not be better to implement something for the richer data model, such that querying relational data models to produce JSON (for example) would become trivial?

A long time ago, I made some attempts about this: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/AoP_spec_stat.html Not so long ago, I worked a bit on a data oriented language with cursors, compounds and components: https://github.com/FransFaase/DataLang.