On 12/21/2015 11:30 AM, Rémi Vion wrote:

Hello, Project:M36 seems amazing, thanks ! Thank your also for the link to the "/Out of the Tar Pit" paper/ (http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf).

Thank you Remi. We are working on completing the final components described in precisely this paper. Then, we will publish an essay about how Project:M36 meets the paper's requirements for functional-relational programming.

Are you aware of people using Project:M36 in production ?

The project is very young and unlikely to be used in production. Currently, I would recommend it to users interested in learning about the mathematics behind the relational algebra. In comparison, SQL is a terrible platform for learning about the relational algebra because SQL made some poor historical decisions. Here is an essay on one facet of this argument: https://github.com/agentm/project-m36/blob/master/docs/on_null.markdown

Is there some user feedback available somewhere ?

Please use the github issue system if you encounter any problems. Or are you asking for a "frequently-asked questions" section? We should certainly add that.

For small scale applications, do you think M36 is ready enough to be a viable alternative to Postgres ?

Project:M36 would be a viable replacement for PostgreSQL for experimental use only. There are many more optimizations at every level which need to be implemented before Project:M36 is on-par with PostgreSQL and we are working on many new features. Project:M36 has also not yet achieved feature parity with PostgreSQL, though Project:M36 already includes some features impossible in PostgreSQL (such as nested relations). Thanks for trying Project:M36! Any feedback you have would be very valuable. Cheers, M