On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, at 19:46, Joel Jacobson wrote: > However, for certain tasks, when a high-level language is preferred, > and when the raw performance of C isn't necessary, then maybe SQL/PLpgSQL > could be a serious alternative to Perl?
Before we had jsonb, this would have been totally unrealistic. But with jsonb, I think we actually have complete coverage of Perl's data types: Perl array <=> jsonb array Perl hash <=> jsonb object Perl scalar <=> jsonb string/boolean/number I've been using jsonb with great success for code generation. ASTs are nicely represented as nested jsonb arrays. /Joel
