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Re:Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and ... by lobster_johnson on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:46AM (#13627329)
I'm not an idiomatic C# programmer, but having a text-based language is really useful in all sorts of situations:

* Interactive REPL (think psql)

* Use outside of C#, e.g. small bash scripts for automation of small tasks such as deleting old records in a cron job

* Copy/paste a into Slack, Github issues etc. without having to drag along any dependent code or worrying that it's not a complete query

Query builders are nice, but eventually they have to compile down to something "neutral" and portable.

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