[hueho]

> Go actually ships with a quite forward thinking SQL interface

SQL is low hanging fruit in this regard, because you just need to standardize the lowest common denominator flavors of SQL types for deserialization and then it's just juggling SQL queries around.

JDBC for Java does the same as database/sql and it's from 1997. ODBC is from 1992.

[59nadir]

I don't think GP is saying that this is forward thinking, revolutionary level stuff, but rather that it's generally speaking a better thing to do than ship specific implementations that wall people into your solutions.