Comment by nextaccountic

I also saw a proposal for a better syntax for SQL, called BQL, that was a strict superset but allowed for better modularity

http://intelligiblebabble.com/a-better-query-language-bql-la...

It had this github repo https://github.com/lelandrichardson/BQL but never went anywhere

I hope PRQL has a better fate! unfortunately, by deviating from SQL lexical conventions (using :, using [], etc) we lose the ability to copy-paste from sql code elswhere.

I want a better SQL, but I also want some compatibility. Like typescript is for javascript.