Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres
Interesting coincidence for me that this hits the front page of HN today as I recently read this article [0].<p>The author thinks we should move away using the database purely to persist the data, while handling all logic&#x2F;validation in the server language (e.g. By using an ORM to map your server language to the database) was less robust over time.<p>Instead, he suggests pushing knowledge of your data into your database as this has proven to be more time resilient and takes advantage of the power of these databases.<p>I liked the argument (which is better expressed that my paraphrasing) but my largest reservation was that expressiveness is a big consideration for choosing some language, and in this case the alternative to using Ruby&#x2F;JS&#x2F;Python + ORM in your MVC framework is to use SQL functions, which are syntactically clunky&#x2F;dated at the very least.<p>It seems like Andl is looking to bridge this to some extent.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg</a>