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Re:Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog by pjmlp on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:13AM (#23887849)
Rejuvenating that many devs are finally looking into this kind of workflows.

For prior work on IDE as database check "Energize/Cadillac & Lucid's Demise", https://www.dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html

You can see it in action on this 1993 marketing video from Lucid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk

IBM also tried the same concept on Visual Age for C++, version 4, which was one of the very last versions of the product.

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/VisualAge_C%2B%2B_4.0_Review

Both suffered from too heavy hardware requirements for what most companies were willing to pay for, otherwise we could have had Smalltalk like tooling, with incremental compilation and reloading for C++ already during the early 90's.

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