This looks great, with postgres support I could see myself using this regularly.

What is the landscape for simple tools for writing to databases? We used to have Access and simple CRUD tools. I saw a demo of Steve Jobs demoing NextStep which had this beautiful CRUD generator which obviously does not exist today.

It seems like the landscape is basically Airtable, Retool, Google Forms or roll your own with a more sophisticated stack. I feel like it ought to be incredibly easy to build a form, either web based or native, which writes to a database. Yet it seems like we are farther away from this than we have ever been

The NeXT (then Apple) product you are talking about is/was WebObjects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects

It allowed for both HTML applications and Java apps (both JNLP and completely local). And before the transition to Java it was ObectiveC, and I think even had a scripting language (WebScript?). It was beautiful, fast, and for lots of things you could just wire up a small app to a database with almost no code (then later add the business code after the demo).

One of my first jobs was writing a web app using it, and those were fun days.

The EnterpriseObjects part (the part that managed data to/from the database) survived for a long time in parts of Apple's web back-end. And I have always thought that WebObjects was the model that Ruby-on-Rails was designed to mimic (in many ways, but not all).

Edit: here is some documentation I just found: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Le...

Poor.

My dream is to build such tool, I slowly doing in the side (https://tablam.org). Probably need to ask for funding too.

In concrete, what I want is a real alternative to Fox/Access that work, unrestricted, locally (including inside a phone/iPad). I don't mind have support for cloud stuff (that is what pay the bills mostly) but that is secondary IMHO.

Current computers, even mobile, have far much power than most need, and is a shame not much tools actually exploit it.