[nathan_douglas]

I hadn't heard of this before and found it really interesting and entertaining. This reminds me of the Ediacaran and Cambrian critters... where one looks at fossils of things like Hallucigenia and marvels at the different paths that evolution could've taken.

The video called me out when it mentioned that the query language might seem scary or dirty to some of us - and it does! My eyelid twitched when I saw the example on screen - but it's still really interesting to me to think about a database as the source of the OS primitives, rather than an application running within a more standard OS and using the OS's conceptual framing.