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euroderf 66 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I want in a modern relational query languag...

> 2. Joins are an unnatural way to dereference pointers.

There's gotta be a simple & clear alternative to this obstruction. Maybe it just hasn't been invented yet.

mike_hearn 66 days ago [–]

Most query languages do fix that. GraphQL is one example.

jedwards1211 66 days ago | [–]

GraphQL joins are entirely up to the underlying resolvers, it has no syntax for expressing different kinds of joins or filter conditions on values from multiple joined relations

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