> "we believe advances in programming language theory and database systems have opened a path that wasn’t available before"

Which is tantamount to waving one's hands about and saying there's "New magic!(tm)"

... while standing next to a pile of discarded old magic that didn't work out.

This blog post says nothing about what makes Cambra's approach unique and likely to succeed; it is just a list of (valid) complaints about the status quo.

I'm guessing they want to build a "cathedral" instead of the current "bazaar" of components, perhaps like Heroku or Terraform, but "better"? I wish them luck! They're going to need it...