The notion that this is for non-technical people is... wild. Curious to know who they've spoken to?!
We should write power users, maybe.
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Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
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Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#22The compilation example contains an error. You should ask Claude what it is, because clearly you didn't find it yourself.
Which one ?
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#23Why would I teach this to someone instead of plain SQL?
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#24Why would I teach this to someone instead of plain SQL?
If nothing is going on at work this allows you to work overtime to find compilation issues, can't have enough redundant leaky abstractions in a project ..
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#25can't wait to never use this
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#26SQL was also initially built for end users and not considered "code".
I'm not sure we should continue to stack supposedly simple languages one on top of the other for ever. Why not learn SQL instead?
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#27I coincidentally worked on something similar but I kept closer to the SQL standard. It grew out of business cases where you don't have strongly typed data to act on.
I more or less adopted the syntax from dumbql (https://github.com/tomakado/dumbql) and started off with a peg parser using ohm.js. As I started benchmarking I realized how slow it was and started looking for "fast paths" using regex. I ultimately resorted to a recursive descent parser similar to Elo. At that stage I already had a lot of tests and api in place, so I was able to get a lot of help from Claude.
Website here: https://filtron.dev
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#28SQL was also initially built for end users and not considered "code". I'm not sure we should continue to stack supposedly simple languages one on top of the other for ever. Why not learn SQL instead?
Because we already have databases we have to query and they speak only a dialect of SQL. If there were a lower-level machine-friendly instruction set for databases, it should target that.
Re: Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL
#29This is very similar to what I'm building: https://lutra-lang.org
The base premise is the same: SQL is not a proper programming language and everyone knows it only because they have to. And I feel like everyone who knows SQL enough admits that, but still none of the 20+ attempts of a better language stuck on.
As someone would say: sad.
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