Comment by kerng

From all the languages I learned since high school, SQL is the one that is pretty much still the same. Agreed, it's not perfect but I think it's one of the most stable things there are. New features get added, which creates inconsistencies between dialects. But if you stick to basics, it's all still very much the same. In 2000s XML was added, then later JSON and there will be future support for other formats also to integrate new data types.