SQL, JS, Excel are really hard to substitute because of how widely used they are by people. Even if something new comes up that it's objectively better, so far has always failed gaining traction because of this reality.
I wonder though, is such a dialect better for agents? Have you tried to measure if an agent performs better expressing queries in such a language instead of SQL?
I wonder though, is such a dialect better for agents? Have you tried to measure if an agent performs better expressing queries in such a language instead of SQL?
Morel is an ML dialect that can compile set-producing expressions into bytecode that Calcite can execute against databases
Sort of like "If you could query anything with SQL but it's ML instead"
I bring this up because the example query looks very similar to Morel queries
Neat xample of solving a combinatorial optimization problem with a single query that he posted recently to Twitter:
https://x.com/i/status/2062066151841321370
http://blog.hydromatic.net/2026/06/02/package-queries.html
Not really, too many obscure symbols.
Certainly learnable but I wouldn't say immediately readable.