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?
I’d like to see some benchmarks on truly how much this difference matters when running on the cloud.
I expect latency alone between the App<->Db will dwarf whatever microseconds your raw sql would save that it’s hard to distinguish from the chaos of latency variance.