On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
FWIW, this API is insanely complicated and has way too many
callbacks to
keep track of. It's caused me a lot of confusion and makes using it
incredibly complex.
Yeah. Let me know if you have any better ideas. :-)
It is a nice way to capture the current situation with the API. On the
one hand, experienced and sincere programmers such as Lachy are not
able to use the API and on the other hand, we fail to come up with
alternatives.
I wonder why we are pushing ourselves (and the hordes of people who
want to store data in databases) over the metaphorical cliff.
I am working on an alternative (non-SQL, and non-callback craziness).
It may not be very user-friendly (some waits, some deadlocks), but it
is at least more programmer-friendly. Some often talk about the
hypothetical "Web database" programmer as being significantly
different from the typical database programmer. However, I am not
going to be able to offer much by means of ideas for a type of person
that I cannot recognize or understand.
I am hoping to have an initial editor's draft ready this week. I hope
the WG finds it interesting.
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