# The Hunt for the Missing Data Type

<https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Wayne writes about how common graph relationship problems show up in programming and wonders why we don't have much more robust support for graphs built-in to languages. Fundamentally he comes to a conclusion on why generic support for graphs is not suitable.

> So, the reasons we don't have widespread graph support:
> 
> - There are many different kinds of graphs
> - There are many different representations of each kind of graph
> - There are many different graph algorithms
> - Graph algorithm performance is very sensitive to graph representation and implementation details
> - People run very expensive algorithms on very big graphs.

Hou then writes a great response that there is a great language for graphs in [The "missing" graph datatype already exists](https://tylerhou.com/posts/datalog-go-brrr/) — [Datalog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog), a declarative logic programming language.

Both articles are a good read.

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