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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Tell that to the person who implemented Tetris in Postgresql.

https://github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That is bananas! The implementation details are worth a read. Plus, all the links to other bananas projects are great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Eh ECS is basically all about making SELECT ... FROM bar, baz WHERE bar.id == baz.id, joins on primary keys, as fast as possible and use it as often as possible. Games are real-time databases with gaudy user interfaces so it stands to reason that posgresql is a game with a bland user interface.