> it just somehow managed to stick around.

We're kind of stuck with it, unless someone does for SQL what Kotlin tried to do for Java. I wonder what it would even look like, or if the real answer is to take the WASM spec, and make one for SQL itself, so you can write queries in any language, compile them to "WASM-DB" or whatever, then those get converted over to standard SQL, until databases support "WASM-DB" or whatever language.

Would love to see what something like this could look like and if it would be worthwhile? For me WASM opens us up to not having to write front-end JS and being able to do front-end and back-end both in your native programming language (like Blazor does for C#).