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TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL Queries in React Server Components

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• ColdFusion used to work this way:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion
  What surprised me is that when I went to look at the Wikipedia page for CF, apparently its latest release was this year! I haven’t heard anybody mention it in a very long time.

  By JimDabell 3 hours ago

• I was active in the ColdFusion/CFML community for a long time, and still run some production code in it. It certainly isn't popular, but just carries on quietly, powering a lot of internal applications you'll never hear about. Many run the open source version of it (Lucee).

  By bdcravens 2 hours ago

• Indeed it does. I maintain one such application while an in-progress rewrite develops. Gotta say, it's not been that bad and the Lucee docs have served me well, but for whatever reason I tend to be pleased/impressed by all kinds of tech, even when popular opinion is negative about it.

  By tootubular 2 hours ago

• With how deeply embedded cold fusion was in many gigantic corporations I've worked with, I would not be surprised if it stays alive for decades to come because nobody ever can port off of it.

  By freedomben 2 hours ago

• Don't remember the full context, but I heard a few years ago from Adobe that they could never sell another license to the private sector and government licenses would be self-sustaining.

  By bdcravens 2 hours ago

• Lucee took over and is still active (ish).

  By conception 2 hours ago

• I worked at a major university that used ColdFusion. They had one guy furiously writing all these websites that were total one-offs. They didn't use source control. Every project was a copy of his original. If there was a bug, he had to update dozens of projects instead of maintaining common source across those dozens of sites. He was totally insane and making bank.

  By lisbbb 2 hours ago

• Apparently some here are quite active with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211559
  Also longtime internet celebrity and occasional HN poster Pud built the wildly successful Distrokid service with it.

  By CPLX 3 hours ago

• It's superficially tailwind-y, but in fact a sort of stenographic subset of SQL:

    db-{table}-{column}-where-{field}-{value}-limit-{n}-orderby-{field}-{asc|desc}
  
    db-users →
      SELECT * FROM users
    db-users-name →
      SELECT name FROM users
    db-users-where-id-1 →
      SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1
    db-posts-title-limit-10 →
      SELECT title FROM posts LIMIT 10
    db-products-orderby-price-desc →
      SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY price DESC
  

  Certainly can result in some terribly inefficient access patterns, as there's no obvious syntax for joins. But enough for a toy project, and enough to hit the HN front page %)

  By nine_k 2 hours ago

• It's not really very fun when these joke projects are built by AI.

  By Starlevel004 2 hours ago

• This hilarious. Some people wouldn't know a good joke if it mugged them in an alley.

  By ricardonunez 2 hours ago

• It's hard to tell these days. Anyone can now say "what if..." And have an agent build something that either looks a lot like (or is) that thing.

  By jasonjmcghee 2 hours ago

• That's because most devs are so overwhelmed with having to keep up with XYZ that the joke isn't even funny.

  By lisbbb 2 hours ago

• everyday there is a new `insert something related to react` framework.
  Everyday we stray further from the simplicity god.

  By olcarl75 3 hours ago

• Having clicked on the link, it's one commit with the commit message "wtf"
  The README also says "License: MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )"
  It's that perfect level of absurdity that captures so much of the terrible complexity that often happens.

  By mdasen 3 hours ago

• There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.

  By valiant55 3 hours ago

• Surely a simple filter by number of stars on a project would improve the quality of code LLMs ingest.

  By pennomi 2 hours ago

• You just convinced me to star it.
  ”I’m doing my part!”

  By stefanfisk 2 hours ago

• Complexity demon everywhere.

  By valiant55 3 hours ago

• hopefully I never have to review someone unironically using something similar in production code since I don't think I'll be able to stop myself from dropping a slur or two.

  By kachapopopow 3 hours ago

• The author is on point: "Making AI and blockchain accessible for founders who want to ship fast."

  By esafak 2 hours ago

• Luckily this entire thing is a joke.

  By kachapopopow an hour ago

• The actual disturbing thing is that given Next‘s track record of questionable security architecture, the author felt compelled to make the joke explicit.

  By nehalem 2 hours ago

• From the site: "For fun only - don't use in production"

  By sixtyj 3 hours ago

• Wow holy abstraction!
  Weird stuff, seems to be vibe-coded using cursor and also the github issues are full of spam.

  By tacker2000 3 hours ago

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  By 2 hours ago

• Reminds me of the query methods in Spring Data JPA: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-m...

  By johnhamlin 3 hours ago

• License disallows production use
  MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )

  By yousif_123123 3 hours ago

• It's a joke. The entire thing is a joke :)

  By crazygringo 3 hours ago

• No no, let him deploy to production.

  By kykeonaut 2 hours ago

• There was something like that in Firefox in the age of websqlite(yes, that long ago) - I can't recall it's name but it seemed like a neat idea.

  By postepowanieadm 3 hours ago

• Looks nice but is it vulnerable to injection attacks?

  By linhns 2 hours ago

• No LLM Prompts support in className? Useless.

  By divan 2 hours ago

• This gives me Tom's a genius vibes

  By ranza 2 hours ago

• And we wonder why the web keeps breaking...

  By rglover 3 hours ago

• I think it's a joke proof of concept

  By gedy 3 hours ago

• Absurd. Thank you, you shouldn't have. I need it. I logged in for the first time in a long time just to upvote this.

  By geekjeremy 2 hours ago

• You can't make jokes like this! Someone is going to take you seriously! Just like what happened with TailwindCSS in the first place!

  By moron4hire 2 hours ago

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  By 3 hours ago

• https://github.com/mmarinovic/tailwindsql/blob/main/.cursor/...
  You can't make this up.

  By bakugo 3 hours ago

• That's the funniest thing I've seen this week.

  By crazygringo 2 hours ago

• Next up TailwindSyscall!

  By Yokohiii 3 hours ago

• I didn't look to see if this is a joke, but seriously, is SQL still a big thing in web dev these days? Feels like it isn't. GraphQL is a thing.

  By lisbbb 2 hours ago

• GraphQL and SQL are not comparable or competing technologies. GraphQL is more analogous to a REST API. GraphQL can use SQL under the hood, or you can even hand serve the bytes (tongue in cheek here). It's just an over-the-network protocol to serve data.
  a Node.JS server might use SQL directly or call out to a GraphQL API, but I literally don't think it's possible to let client-side JavaScript (safely) call a SQL database server directly.

  By wmichelin an hour ago

• "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
  -Dr. Ian Malcolm

  By usernamed7 3 hours ago