There is no SQL successor: SQL is here to stay.
replyApplying 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).
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.
replyRead 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 :/
replyNever heard of the Lindy effect either, learn something new from this site every day haha
replyIt was made famous by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Incerto.
reply> >The Only Programming Language Built on Mathematics, Not Fashion
replyFortran would like a word. The name literally means "Formula Translation"
The power of SQL is not because it is "based on mathematics" - it's because anyone (really, anyone, even with the most basic English skills) could understand it quickly enough to start using it productively with not much technical knowledge. Business analytics, managers of all sorts, manual QA people could grasp the basics in a minute and more complex queries within a few hours. It is very user-friendly and such tools win over anything else. Each time I see an overengineerd/overcomplicated solution that is hard to read/understand - I know it's only "good luck" to the creators.
replyThe only one? As opposed to ... Haskell, LISP/Scheme in the original SICP version, and proof assistant languages like Lean.
replyFirst impressions assuming the goal is to replace the incumbent SQL. Haven't seen the language yet.
reply * D4M rolls off the tongue
* Make me buy a book to see the language.i'm probably pretty dumb but i don't really get what's so mathematical about sql.
replySounds interesting, but how can I use it to talk with an Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL database?
replyThis seems like just another NoSQL db, but with fancier words.
replyI feel you missed the point of the article :)
replyI feel like the point of the article was "hey chatgpt write me an article about SQL"
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