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Reviewing some of my earliest web projects: they have a mix of Postgres, MySQL and Mongo. These days I just use sqlite for all my personal projects. It's really good at my scale and makes deploying very easier.

Should lint suppressions be first class syntax or comments? Adding a proper metadata system (e.g. Clojure or Rust) is a big design space but it's clear which expressions are affected. Comments are much easier to implement but it's easy for users to get them wrong. Thoughts?

Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable. The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.