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Comment by canadiantim

2 years ago

Would love to see EdgeQL become adopted beyond EdgeDB. I don't like the vendor lock-in with EdgeDB, but I think they're doing great work

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fforflo  2 years ago

Yes, they are. Beyond the core database offering, I'd also like to underline the quality of their software engineering work. There are not many Python-powered databases out there; their codebase has some real gems from the setup.py to their core compiler and Postgres-based storage layer.

1st1  2 years ago

> Would love to see EdgeQL become adopted beyond EdgeDB

We'll soon be announcing some interesting developments on that front, stay tuned :)

ttfkam  2 years ago 

    "A jaw-dropping amount of effort has been spent attempting to bridge the gap between the relational paradigm of SQL and the object-oriented nature of modern programming languages. EdgeDB sidesteps this problem by modeling data in an object-relational way."

All the best to the team. I however truly hope this isn't the direction the industry moves toward. I thought we learned our lesson from MongoDB. I still believe data is best modeled in sets, not objects.

The solution isn't for databases to become more like object stores but for general purpose programming languages to be more amenable to seamless access of set-oriented data.

More stuff like this:

https://github.com/porsager/postgres

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx