Comment by yazaddaruvala

+1 I’ve really enjoyed using more declarative languages in recent years.

At work I’ve been helping push “use SQL with the best practices we learned from C++ and Java development” and it’s been working well.

It’s identical to your point. We no longer need to care about pointers. We need to care about defining the algorithms and parallel processing (multi-threaded and/or multi-node).

Fun fact: even porting optimized C++ to SQL has resulted in performance improvements.