Maciej Sobczak wrote:

Hi,

Jeff Garland wrote:

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Well, I'll be brutally honest -- I don't think I would go that direction. We didn't pick a database project last year because a majority of the mentors agreed that the 'dsl-based' approach was more of a toy than reality. The main reason for this is that in 'real-world' applications queries are often dynamic and must be built at run-time.

The other reason is that in 'real-world' you might want to call stored procedures instead of manually glued pieces of ad-hoc SQL queries, in which case the support in the area of query composition is probably not very useful anyway.

In the 'real-world' both things are used. Choosing C++ for a projects where databases are involved is probably rare and Java/C#/Python/Ruby is more likely. C++ doesn't exactly boost productivity, so it has to offer something else to be a condidate. And what can C++ offer? Type safety. -Thorsten