What really needs to exist and doesn’t is languages with first class support for direct relational queries in the language. We have functional, procedural, and OO programming languages but no relational programming languages.
The fact that a database is this weird thing bolted onto your code with a bunch of glue is asinine. The data is the whole point. It should be in the center with code around it not off to the side. The database should be the runtime with the data as the center of the universe.
The fact that a database is this weird thing bolted onto your code with a bunch of glue is asinine. The data is the whole point. It should be in the center with code around it not off to the side. The database should be the runtime with the data as the center of the universe.