> the language on the DB servers are often a bit harder to reason with
But can't we say that about every other language? I've been writing a lot of PL/pgSQL lately and I've enjoyed every bit of it. For PostgreSQL there's also PL/Python, PL/V8, etc. Those are packages for writing the server code in python and JavaScript respectively and out the window goes the obscure language excuse. But that's if you're on Postgres.
But can't we say that about every other language? I've been writing a lot of PL/pgSQL lately and I've enjoyed every bit of it. For PostgreSQL there's also PL/Python, PL/V8, etc. Those are packages for writing the server code in python and JavaScript respectively and out the window goes the obscure language excuse. But that's if you're on Postgres.