[mildred593]

For my work I use SQL pretty extensively, the PostGreSQL flavor, and it's really powerful. I wonder how it is possible to do without except for very simple queries where the ORM might kind of work.

There is however a weakness of SQL is that it's purely declarative and it's difficult to make sure it does the right thing. I often find myself in front of queries that are badly optimized and I'd welcome a language that would be less declarative where you could tell the database engine which index you want to use and how explicitly. The optimizer has table metrics but with the domain specific knowledge the programmer has generally better insights.