Comment by maximilianroos

4 years ago

Thanks!

I agree that integrating with the DB would allow much more from a lang. But PRQL is a bet that languages which start there (e.g Kusto) get lost because it requires changing DB, which is really hard. I worry EdgeDB may hit this issue too (but I'm really hoping it works, and they have an excellent team).

As I think you're suggesting — you could imagine a language starting out as a transpiler, and then over time DBs working with it directly, cutting out some of the impediment mismatch.

Malloy [1] is another point in space — it targets existing DBs through SQL queries but can also ask for schemas etc while developing.

[1] https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy

2 comments

maximilianroos

anentropic 4 years ago

FYI I think the phrase you're looking for is "impedance mismatch"

(I noticed this on the github readme too)

maximilianroos 4 years ago

Ah thank you!