https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion
What surprised me is that when I went to look at the Wikipedia page for CF, apparently its latest release was this year! I haven’t heard anybody mention it in a very long time.
Also longtime internet celebrity and occasional HN poster Pud built the wildly successful Distrokid service with it.
db-{table}-{column}-where-{field}-{value}-limit-{n}-orderby-{field}-{asc|desc}
db-users →
SELECT * FROM users
db-users-name →
SELECT name FROM users
db-users-where-id-1 →
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1
db-posts-title-limit-10 →
SELECT title FROM posts LIMIT 10
db-products-orderby-price-desc →
SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY price DESC
Certainly can result in some terribly inefficient access patterns, as there's no obvious syntax for joins. But enough for a toy project, and enough to hit the HN front page %)Everyday we stray further from the simplicity god.
The README also says "License: MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )"
It's that perfect level of absurdity that captures so much of the terrible complexity that often happens.
Weird stuff, seems to be vibe-coded using cursor and also the github issues are full of spam.
MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )
You can't make this up.
a Node.JS server might use SQL directly or call out to a GraphQL API, but I literally don't think it's possible to let client-side JavaScript (safely) call a SQL database server directly.
-Dr. Ian Malcolm