Every other query language is a layer on top of it.
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SQL has outlasted nearly every framework, ORM, and query language built on top of it. The reason is not nostalgia. SQL is a remarkably honest interface to relational data, and relational data turns out to model most of the world surprisingly well.
Engineers who refuse to learn it because the syntax looks dated end up writing the same operations in three more layers of indirection, each of which translates back to SQL anyway.
Learn SQL well. The dividend pays for itself across every backend you will ever touch.
