Comment by billfruit
2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, did PRQL evolve from some theoretical innovation or did arise bottom up from practical utilities?
Is it a new tool with great new powers or is it just syntactic sugar?
2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, did PRQL evolve from some theoretical innovation or did arise bottom up from practical utilities?
Is it a new tool with great new powers or is it just syntactic sugar?
it compiles to SQL so no extra powers. But it does make some common patterns more succinct. They have good documentation on the website.
Personally, I was very excited about using it to write some complex queries in my application that does some fancy backtesting with sliding windows etc, but I reverted back to SQL pretty quickly because I found myself first thinking in SQL and translating back to PRQL :/
Yep, just syntactic sugar.