Comment by z3t4

SQL is an incredible language. I don't think we can do better, only different. It's not that common to mix two programming languages like you mix SQL and application code. For example having your app code in JavaScript then write SQL queries to access the data feels unfashionable. Polling also seem like something from the 80's. RethinkDb was a step in the right direction, but I think the mistake was to invent another query language, instead of making the database querying seamlessly integrated to programming languages. It should be possible to write observables without having to context switch back and forth between data querying and app logic.

I'm a "full stack" developer/speaker, and for a long time I useed English on the front-end, German on the back-end, and Spanish for talking to the databaste. When I switched to English on the back-end I saw an productivity boost and I got better at and started to like English more. But I still talk Spanish with the database. I could probably be more efficient using English to talk to everything. I would probably still use French for design though.