I was never more productive than when using Access (and dBase II before that). Why can't we have that?

My theory: Something was lost in the jump from workgroup computing to client/server.

Imagine if Access was rebuilt on top of a client/server stack. That's kind of what Riffle is trying to do.

I've been (slowly) working on the persistence stuff. It (mostly) moots the SQL vs ORM vs query builder slap-fight.

I've got some notions (and POCs) about UI, mediated via HTTP & HTML.

I'd love to have some CRDT-like smarts; learning more is on my TODO list.

I'm still thinking about the "reactive" part. I haven't imagined anything past Access VBA style programming. I'm struggling to envision a FRP-meets-CRUD future perfect world.