Not really. The author doesn't leverage any kind of static typesystem, which would at least mitigate some of the warts. He's chosen Node.js instead of leveraging the browser, so no free visualization layer for doing anything interesting with, unfortunately.
> Have you worked with a JS language for any extended period of time?
Most of my day job is working in a really, really big Javascript codebase.
I can say with confidence that the language is something that we're absolutely stuck with, and I still have no idea why somebody would implement a pedagogical database with it (well, then again, they haven't; they've implemented a key-value store, which is trivial).
To offer an alternative, they could have chosen something boring but everywhere like Java, which is just as accessible to those with less experience. Then they'd have the possibility of doing fine-grained parallelism, file access, designing abstractions that fit within a statically typed language.
No stupid questions time, but given all languages, would an array based language like J be a decent choice for building a database from scratch?
I mean, tables seem like doubly indexed arrays.
In my mind it wouldn't be readable but it'd be maybe less lines of code than other languages?
I have never thought about building a database that takes into consideration CAP theorem and ACID compliance, sounds super tough. I'm usually happy enough when I learn something neat about Postgres.
I thought this would be neat but it's just a kv store in JavaScript.
This was my thought exactly. For many high school and university students in the US, Java is their first language and introductory courses usually deal in unsatisfying toy applications. I could imagine a great primer into building a database that introduces all kinds of interesting computer science concepts as well as practical programming techniques (e.g. organizing a project as it grows).
Not really. The author doesn't leverage any kind of static typesystem, which would at least mitigate some of the warts. He's chosen Node.js instead of leveraging the browser, so no free visualization layer for doing anything interesting with, unfortunately.
> Have you worked with a JS language for any extended period of time?
Most of my day job is working in a really, really big Javascript codebase. I can say with confidence that the language is something that we're absolutely stuck with, and I still have no idea why somebody would implement a pedagogical database with it (well, then again, they haven't; they've implemented a key-value store, which is trivial).
To offer an alternative, they could have chosen something boring but everywhere like Java, which is just as accessible to those with less experience. Then they'd have the possibility of doing fine-grained parallelism, file access, designing abstractions that fit within a statically typed language.