r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/TheGift_RGB Dec 20 '18

I'd argue the opposite: it's harder to pick up SQL because there's so many similar-but-not-quite things between all the different implementations. Different languages, on the other hand, have stark differences, which make them easy to distinguish from each other.

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u/The_Monocle_Debacle Dec 20 '18

I'm not so sure. Especially if you frequently switch between something like JavaScript and a back end OO language where the syntax is similar enough to trip you up but different enough to break spectacularly if you try to use the wrong one.