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This is accurate. But it’s also not: any time anything is done in any language we can just point at the language below it.

But yeah, this is probably more charitably described as “A CSS interface for SQL written in Javascript.”

Okay, but why not call every database extension for a language just "A [language] interface for SQL written in [driver language]."

"ext/mysqli is just a PHP interface for SQL written in C"

What is the difference

The challenge isn't to only use CSS, it's to "connect to a DB in CSS", which this does with `--sql-query: SELECT name FROM test;`.

So, in the strictest sense, "yes really".

Even without Houdini, we could have always written a piece of JS to read all the CSS on a page, and if it contains an SQL query, execute it. This implementation has nothing to do with CSS, but is obfuscated behind a new fancy api.

Still clever, though.

An V8 is written in C++ so...