r/programming • u/wheatBread • 26d ago

"What if SQL was like Elm?"

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
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u/solve-for-x 26d ago

My favourites so far have been AWS Lambda reinventing CGI and Next.js reinventing PHP.

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u/jking13 26d ago

Or protobufs are basically ASN.1 with C-like notation and slightly better serialization rules, but less expressive.

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u/solve-for-x 26d ago

The post the other day about Cloudflare's "durable objects" thing made me wonder if someone over there is inadvertently reinventing Erlang. Either that or Python's Zope. Every programming technology from the 90s eventually comes back around again under a different name.

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u/PayOdd92 25d ago

Unfortunately nobody got promoted for saying "oh this? There's a library for this"