SQL is good actually. Using your database system to define your data model along with all of its constraints is much better than just scribbling out some Rust/TypeScript/Go datatypes and shitting them out into a schema with a new database migration every fucking commit.
Your SQL application does not need to be portable. You don't need an over-engineered rube-goldberg solution where you can slot out OracleDB for SQLite for fucking CSV documents. Your code SHOULD be ANSI/ISO standard, but it just needs to run on PostgreSQL. PostgeSQL is portable.
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SQL is the most idiotic programming language i've ever seen. Select blabla from x, IDE can't help you with select as it does not yet know FROM where. Try making a list inside the query, that needs weird hackery because the programming language whose only job is operating on lists can't even define lists in code.