I for one would welcome a new alternative to sql. It might not be _this_ alternative, but why not try.

SQL is very hard to learn properly, with all of its gotchas and inconsistencies. There are running jokes for noobs truncating their tables due to forgetting a where clause. I’ve seen junior devs crying in tears and throwing their mice just because they needed to debug / optimise a complex query.

The mare existence of all the ORMs is a testament that people would opt to write (or use) insanely complex pieces of software just so they don’t have to deal with the lack of composition and ease of use.

All of those look to me as signs that something wrong with the core itself. We could do better.

If we settled for good enough in all cases we wouldn’t have Go or Rust, React or Postgres. In fact every software that we have is a product of someone thinking “this is hard/wasteful/unexpressive/etc, lets write an alternative”, SQL included.

This alternative looks quite promising. We can wait to see how they can handle the edge cases, but the core looks a lot simpler to deal with than regular SQL.