> As the team learned the hard way in the ramp-up to CockroachDB 1.0, many developers in the ecosystems that CockroachDB wants to enter do not write their own SQL queries any more—as opposed to, e.g., ten or twenty years ago. I cannot help but being saddened by this. It is really hard to understand how not knowing how to interface directly to the part of the system that holds the ultimate reason we write a program (h…
You assume that all those people don't know and don't understand how to interface directly.
Maybe they do know, but different approach turns out more productive for them.
For such "no true Scotsman" argument that "real developers write their SQL" I really like "ad absurdum" that "real developers write in machine code".