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That's fun. I remember doing this ~2001 with some JSP tags. Everyone thought it was terrible idea but it was really productive tbh.
Thanks for the comment. I also thought the same, so I don't blame people for thinking it's a terrible idea.
What's really exciting is that it gives reactivity, reloading, declarative state and a lot of optimizations almost for free, but as I haven't implemented them in PageQL yet, the advantages are less clear.
Around the same time I built several line of business applications using Oracles mod_plsql. It was also very productive.
HTML + SQL + imperative PL/SQL, running inside the database, right next to the data.
Wow, mod_plsql looks really cool, I didn't know about it.
From the replies I think it mainly went out of favour because of lack of reactivity. I could port PageQL to C/Postgresl/Mysql, but I don't think it would be sufficient for a modern application, as reactivity is expected nowdays. Still, I keep it in mind to leave this kind of development as an option in the future.