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by stesch 4703 days ago
MongoDB is used in almost every community. Especially for new languages.

You can easily find relatively mature MongoDB drivers from the start for new languages, but don't hold your breath for PostgreSQL. See Rust.

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I'm not sure that Rust is really a good example. While promising, the language itself and its standard library are still immature and subject to a huge amount of disruptive change on an ongoing basis.

I've had some experimental code I wrote in Rust become essentially unusable after only a few months due to significant language and standard library changes. I sure hope that somebody wouldn't spend time on a PostgreSQL library for it until the language itself becomes more stable. They'd be wasting a lot of time and effort if they did try to write such a library now.

Rust is a perfect example: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/56426792420/introducing-the-mon...

So are many other newer languages and frameworks. See vibe.d (http://vibed.org/) for D which has only database drivers for MongoDB and Redis.