[molf]

There is no SQL successor: SQL is here to stay.

Applying the Lindy effect [1]: after half a century of SQL we can expect it to survive for at least as long.

Disruption/displacement of SQL is like attempting to replace email. It's not going to happen. At best an alternative technology can carve out a small niche (and there's nothing wrong with that).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[Hugsbox]

That wikipedia article was super interesting, I'd never heard of the Lindy Effect before. A bit difficult to wrap my noggin around but really fascinating to think about.

[nkmnz]

Read the books of Nassim Taleb. They are full of this kind of interesting stuff. Sadly, he blocked me on twitter back when I asked him why he had a paid subscription for a self-described communist hardcore-Putinist hardcore-Antisemite :/

[dsatrainer]

Never heard of the Lindy effect either, learn something new from this site every day haha

[jppope]

It was made famous by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Incerto.