The end of that headline is "but it's not really worth the effort and will likely not succeed".
Sure, SQL is not the most elegant language. But it works. It does what we need it to. Millions of developers knows it, countless tools speak it.
So I expect EdgeQL to go over like a lead balloon. Unless you can convince one of the big existing SQL servers to adopt it, almost no one will ever get the chance to use it, and it'll be a niche language for a niche database.
Sure, SQL is not the most elegant language. But it works. It does what we need it to. Millions of developers knows it, countless tools speak it.
So I expect EdgeQL to go over like a lead balloon. Unless you can convince one of the big existing SQL servers to adopt it, almost no one will ever get the chance to use it, and it'll be a niche language for a niche database.