I'm wondering about the possibility of implementing a first class sequential list type in datascript. I've read https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/wiki/Tips-&-tricks#preserving-order and understand there are ways around it, but if I wanted to fork datascript and implement a real list type, definable in a schema, is there a fundamental reason that is either hard or a bad idea? Or is the lack of lists more to mirror the featureset of datomic?

what’s the upside of adding it to data script over querying, then sorting? or adding a vec or list?

mainly because an attribute is logically sequential it would be nice to be able to lean on the schema to manage this rather than have to manage it myself in code (either by sorting or manually appending to a list)

I'm sure this alone doesn't justify maintaining a separate version of DS, just kind of curious at this point if there are major limitations

@jjttjj Have you looked at the new Datomic tuple support? Seems like that's more or less what you want, with some tx-functions to manage things like "append".

Note: tuple is much more generally useful, as it lets you do things like compound indexes.

Tuples seem interesting and I will have to more thoroughly research them, but from an initial look it seems they can contain at most 8 values which isn't suitable for my use case