Re:Learning Go as a Node.js Developer
by marcus_holmes on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:24AM
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yeah, but... same for any code. A team of coders who don't know javascript will create buggy, insecure Node apps. There's nothing about SQL as a coding language that creates this.
It's more that modern coders are used to not having to learn SQL and trusting the ORM to do the thing for them. So when they encounter actual SQL (usually because they need to break the object <-> table mapping) it's all scary and weird.
Back in the day, of course, we had DBA's (DataBase Administrators) to make sure that application devs who didn't know enough SQL to not make a mess of things, didn't actually make a mess of things. And yes, we hated the DBA's because they were always telling us our SQL sucked. Great training though.
So, yeah, your point is valid, but there's a better solution to that problem: hire a DBA
It's more that modern coders are used to not having to learn SQL and trusting the ORM to do the thing for them. So when they encounter actual SQL (usually because they need to break the object <-> table mapping) it's all scary and weird.
Back in the day, of course, we had DBA's (DataBase Administrators) to make sure that application devs who didn't know enough SQL to not make a mess of things, didn't actually make a mess of things. And yes, we hated the DBA's because they were always telling us our SQL sucked. Great training though.
So, yeah, your point is valid, but there's a better solution to that problem: hire a DBA