Is there a programming language specifically designed for interacting with SQL databases that avoids the need for Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) to solve impedance mismatch from the start?
If such a language exists, would it be a viable alternative to PHP or Go for a web backend project?
It’s just a performance to development time trade off. Clearly the product was successful enough to demand coming back to improve the performance. Lots of software fails before it even reaches that point.