sure, ok, but who uses only the subset of standard SQL in a particular engine just to call his queri3s portable? most of the good stuff is unique to each engine and is what makes the engine stand out.

it’s the same with C standards…

portable, my ass. excuse my french.

each system has it’s own dialect and quirks

it’s just a drag to veer from. it’s not particularly good, but good enough to stick around.

relational databases have years of reseach into them, not the query language itself.

sql was built so people other than devs can use it, but we got stuck with it.

I think you missed the point. OP is asking for an alternative to communicate with a relational DB.

it’s a trend to bloat text lately. recipes, blog posts, LLM output, scrum meeting speeches when working remote.

there was a comment about adding an ?! operator that would resolve any number of ? operators but I can’t find it.

I could choose on all my jobs. I’m doing linux since so long, I don’t even wanna hear of windows.

I had quite a few laptops that worked and then along the way, support was dropped so I had to keep an older kernel.

valid reason IMO

some places are like this. Where I work now seems to be like this. Tech lead starts working on something, breaking things, then he has 100 meetings and either gets distracted or has another emergency and leaves things broken. He doesn’t write tests, pushes images built locally without CI/CD pipelines and lately he keeps messing pubsub subscriptions. Data from other services stops coming through and people ask us why isn’t our service working. ugh

unless everyone starts coming in early just to pester you.

this ain’t a criminal court. It’s ok to be helpful to a degree, especially if a bunch of people can’t work because of that issue.

I prefer the FP approach where I create smaller functions that I compose together in larger functions or methods wich rarely repeat themselves elsewhere identically. Forcing extractions and merging of such functions often leads to weird code acrobatics.

yea but the counter was that they need to move fast.

In the beginning, tests slow you down, but in time, the amount of bugs tests catch and the confidence in refactoring adds up to way more saved time.

yea but if we both aren’t really keen on writing tests and I review you, it would be in my lazy ass’ interest to 👍 without tests.

web is not movies and tv shows.

google pr

Firefox had over 30% some time ago and it still is to spec, often more than chrome is.

edge is chrome