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Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script).

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A Database for Game Engines | Oct 2023
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Fwiw my colleague is the author of https://github.com/wotbrew/relic and he started working on Incremental View Maintenance ~purely because he wants to build a simpler rogue-like :)
Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf] | Feb 2023
I came across this after seeing relic[0] submitted the other day and thought it was pretty interesting.

I've been into CRDTs for a while and have started wondering about generic mechanisms for distributed data. This lead me to read a lot more about the Relational Model of data and eventually to the Event Calculus.

What's interesting to me is that these things end up feeling a lot like CRDTs[1] or Event Sourcing. I haven't quite finished pulling on these threads but the relic link was a timely read considering!

I really liked the first half of this paper and the Authors categorization of complexity. However the second half fell a bit short for me. It seems they made the same mistake as many other people (SQL != Relational) and their idea of Feeders and Observers seems a bit more like an escape hatch than an elegant method for interfacing with the outside world.

[0] https://github.com/wotbrew/relic [1] http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/

How and why the Relational Model works for databases | Jan 2022
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Ahhh... a fellow traveller on the road.

I have been hacking on a Clojure/Script library (https://github.com/wotbrew/relic) to experiment with exactly this kind of thing. / PLUG

For most problems I encounter I want to focus on the data and its relationships.

I cannot help feeling like programming languages and idioms have me deal with too much 'mechanism', the machine like structures and forms that are mostly incidental to the data domains I work in, and are entirely about performance, layout, access pattern etc - when a machine could do an ok job of making those decisions for me until optimisation becomes important.