TablaM VS adama-lang

Compare TablaM vs adama-lang and see what are their differences.

TablaM

The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications (by Tablam)

adama-lang

A headless spreadsheet document container service. (by mathgladiator)
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TablaM adama-lang
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TablaM

Posts with mentions or reviews of TablaM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.
  • YC's Latest Request for Startups
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    > Very curious if anyone knows how to pull this off.

    I work in this space (small/mid-size).

    The good news is that there are several "obvious" ways to pull this off because an ERP is the culmination of everything a company needs and does. So almost anything you can imagine on the software is part of it.

    The bad news, and the reason everyone wants a solution, is that is truly a big space, and then you need E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G.

    ---

    My take is to start from the bottom, and build a much better version of Access/FoxPro (https://tablam.org).

    Any medium/big ERP end being a specialized computing platform that needs:

    - A programming language

    - A database engine

    - An orchestration engine

    - ELT engine

    - Auth

    - UI/Report builders

    And to be clear: NONE of the "programming language", "database engine", etc are a good fit today.

    NONE.

    This is the big thing, This is the reason (from a tech POW only) that most attempts fail.

    This is the secret of why Cobol rule(d): Is all of this! but is too old! (also, this is why SQL still is best: Is almost this).

    ---

    So, to pull this off, you need a team that knows what is "missing" from our current tools, makes a well-integrated package, and adds a "user-friendly" interface in a way that is palatable for the kind of user that uses excel (powerfully).

    Is not that impossible. FoxPro was the best example of this kind of integrated solution.

    P.D: This is my life's dream, to make this truth!

  • Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2024
    SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: TablaM relational language (https://tablam.org)

    TablaM is an in-progress programming language to provide a more ergonomic experience for building data-oriented applications.

    This means that where most languages are focused on low-level details or engineering at large, TablaM is tailored with some small & big design decisions to make it enjoyable to write applications for e-commerce, finance, ERPs, and similar.

    Cool things:

    - TablaM marry the array + relational models. It means we should get very little need for manual loops and all the ops are vectorized.

    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2024
  • What if an SQL Statement Returned a Database?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
    Yeah, I worked on https://tablam.org and https://spacetimedb.com.

    It becomes pretty clear that `order` is a significant property to make useful (and performant!) programs. "Duplicates" is also required to make usefull programs.

    One nonobvious reason for this: You wanna report that a `customer` has a duplicated key `1`. If you CAN'T model `[(customer.id = 1), (customer.id = 1)]` then you can't report errors! And `erroneous` data is VITAL to make useful programs because then the only possibility is "perfect" data, and that is not possible!

    Another reason is that we want to `count` duplicates, to see `duplicates`, and other NON-obvious at first: "What is a duplicate?". Get fun with floats, Unicode, combining case and non-case sensitive input... and is obvious that for useful programs IS REQUIRED to support bags in an extended version of the relational model.

    And yet...

    IS very important to remember about `set semantics` and try to adhere to it when makes sense. Your query planner will like it. You "valid" constraints like it. And `unique index` like it. And so on...

  • If you were dictator of the world what would you force programmers to write in?
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 10 Dec 2023
    Finally, for app development, I will "suggest" everyone use my lang https://tablam.org!
  • There are no strings on me
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2023
    This is moe interesting than it looks, probably because the best part (IMHO) is about the type system, that is what enables the other ideas.

    > In Julia, types are first-class and every value has a type

    This is what I do from the start in https://tablam.org and only later found that is not common! Is so intuitive this way and simpler to check, by a lot. In fact, I waste so much time adapting type inference algorithms that are hard to translate because for some reason graphs are imposed on trees, types are second-class and live at a distance (and erased) and all is a mess this way.

    The relational model already makes this so simple: `project / rename / extend` relational operators cover you.

    From this other facilities become possible. Note how in `SQL` you don't have functions as first-class per se, but now try to imagine that a function is a table and suddenly, is much better!

  • Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
    163 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
    My relational lang (https://tablam.org) that I wish to be a Excel + Access replacement is still half-backed.

    I move it slowly in my personal computer but not much in public. Maybe adding another person will help me on that!

  • Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
    > what is a good alternative to Access (or Fox, I add)

    Nothing.

    Access is(was) in fact a worse alternative to Fox:

    - Much worse DB engine, and that is saying a lot (FoxPro db can and get corrupted. A typical functionality that was added to any fox codebase was a utility to fix it)

    - MUCH MUCH worse programming language (VB) that is neither good as-is, much less as a data-programing language.

    Fox/dbase is the only data-oriented language that was relatively popular and fit for the use-case.

    This is by a mile the main point: Is a desert looking for languages that are made for business app/data oriented programing (and much harder looking for something not weird).

    The main options: Fox/dBase/Informix(? not remember), kdb+, Cobol, SQL(when extended as store procedure lang with loops and that)

    --

    This point is big. Having a good form builder (that is already rare) is not enough to be a real contender for this space. You need a language where making queries is truly nice.

    In short, you need a language that is `LINQ/Relational` as first-class end-to-end.

    - If this lang needs an ORM: FAIL.

    - If this lang needs to compose strings to make a query: FAIL.

    - If exist "impedance mismatch" between data manipulation/queries and the rest of the lang: FAIL.

    - It should also support super-advanced types like date, decimal, currency and ideally dimensional units. Ideally algebraic types as today.

    - It should have a version of Rust `serve, Into/From` for easy conversion between data + formats.

    - It should look "normal" like python/swift with `LINQ` queries.

    This is the lang I trying to build: https://tablam.org

  • SQLite 3.43.0 Released
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
    > I asked was about querying data without ever using a SQL language, like tapping directly into the data.

    I agree (making https://tablam.org to try a fix & working on https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB in the SQL conformance).

    Before I think SQL was bad. *Now I'm certain*. SQL is absurdly massive for things that could have collapse all the features 10x or more.

    However, working in an RDBM now I also understand why is not desirable to make "raw" calls to the DB: The engine MUST mediate all the calls to make things works (from query optimization, execution, iteration, lock management, transaction management, etc).

    Is incredible how much sophistication is in a simple `SELECT * FROM table`.

    What I wish is to build a `Wasm-like` IR so that is what anybody target, and `SQL` is not the mediator.

  • How to start learning a systems language
    7 projects | /r/rust | 17 May 2023
    In my case each lang I have learned (+12) I start coding a mini-ORM. I have done the same so many times, and that is a good way to learn from me. Also, I have to learn Rust building https://tablam.org.

adama-lang

Posts with mentions or reviews of adama-lang. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-16.
  • UI = F(statesāæ)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2024
    I'm in the camp of f = ui(state), and the reason for this is the extreme of streaming games where UI = frame buffer. I'm inventing my own framework for radically simplifying traditional Web apps via RxHTML which works great for crud apps. However, games requires more insight into state machines and what-not.

    In terms of the logic, I wrote an entire platform to simplify multi-player board games which I'm evolving to tackle various businesses. https://www.adama-platform.com/

  • Don't Write a Programming Language
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2022
    I'll take the bait and provide evidence on why you should write a programming language.

    First, it's technically very difficult, but you will gain deeper insight into the art of the craft. So, if you are a TC chaser or career minded person, then spending half a year writing a language will help you master the coding aspect of the game. I've started many languages since I started college, and each one was instructional. (I'm now 40 and an early retiree)

    Second, it's fun.

    Third, it may turn into something new. If some people don't write a new programming language, then we are stuck with what we have. This advice basically admits that the status quo is good enough.

    The authors saying that the language, as a project, is a lifetime appointment? Well, this reveals everything. I believe if you want to do a programming language, then you must be willing to invest at least a decade or two.

    So, here, I am at forty preparing to launch a SaaS around a language that I designed ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ). The kicker, I believe, is that a project like this requires wandering the desert alone for quite a while.

    I'm preparing to launch, and I just started to load test my shiny new production cluster. Low and behold, it sucks. Fortunately, I have a tremendous number of dashboards and isolated it to how I'm interacting with RDS. I've got my work cut out for me which I'll write about.

    However, I have a potentially interesting business precisely because I evolved a language which solved a niche use-case. The number of problems that I have had to solve up to this point is not for the faint of heart. Life and reality are harsh mistress.

    So, maybe, yes, you can save yourself some heartache by not writing a language. Perhaps, a better way to think or phase this is "Writing a programming language is a lonely affair that will most likely end in tragedy after a long death march".

  • The Harsh Truth of Video Games Programming
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2022
    I want to make games, but even some years ago I realized it was not a great path for a multitude of reason (many of which are in this article).

    My path, and what I recommend, is do something hard and important which pays the bills at a premium. I did infrastructure work, and I was lucky to have a great decade long career allowing me to "retire early".

    Now, I can work on a game at my pace building the tools that I see fit. I'm focused on board games because they have a timeless quality about them. I'm developing an entire SaaS platform and programming language to make the network goo beyond easy. http://www.adama-lang.org/

    As I'm getting close to some kind of launch for the SaaS, my next thing is to build up my own web based IDE with a release-often ideology such that I can build a Roblox for online 2D board games. Honestly, I'm having a blast because I'm not suffering tools which are going to fade.

  • Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
    50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2022
    I'm deep on back-ends, and I'm building a SaaS to complement Jamstack perfectly. Now, granted, it was initially designed for board games, but I'm standing up a production cluster this month.

    If you are interested, check out http://www.adama-lang.org/ and reach out at adama [at] mathgladiator [dot] com. I'll ping you directly via your site as well.

    50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2022
    I'm working on http://www.adama-lang.org/ which started as a programming language for board games, and it is turning into a reactive privacy-focused data store for Jamstack.

    I hope to launch in coming month an "Early Access" edition.

    While I do intend to turn this into a business, I'm primarily focusing on small projects to amuse myself. I'm going to break every rule in the business with my LLC. The #1 company value is sleep.

  • Store SQLite in Cloudflare Durable Objects
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2022
    I actually think this is onto something that I'm finding in a different way. Instead of a massive database, what if we had a key-value store mapping keys to tiny databases.

    This is, to some degree, what I'm building over at http://www.adama-lang.org/ without a full SQL engine. Each document has tables, and the tables can be indexed. I have yet to find a usecase (in my domain) which requires joins. HOWEVER, I've had a ton of fun building it and I'm getting ready to start making games.

    I do believe it would be amazing to have a key-logger service where a reducer like sqlite/adama could come into collapse the log into a single file.

    The closest I see is from the Boki paper ( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~zjia/boki-sosp21.pdf ) which was presented at SOSP21.

  • The WebSocket Handbook
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2022
    CRDT solve a part of your problem, and an important consideration is whether or not you want off-line editing. If you don't need off-line editing, then a WebSocket can do it.

    I'm actually using my project to build a collaborative IDE (designer like Figma): http://www.adama-lang.org/

    I'm going to be launching it as a SaaS soon so people can spin up a new back-end without managing an infrastructure.

    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2022
    This is one reason I'm making my up and coming SaaS entirely open source, so you can run a clone in any environment: http://www.adama-lang.org/
  • DeepMind's Player of Games, a general-purpose game algorithm
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
    For Adama ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ), I am using a mutable tree with two copies and then built transactions such that I can emit deltas on the parts that change. I have all the benefits of immutability without the cost PLUS I have a cheap undo/redo log.
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
    I'd appreciate you checking out my language and providing feedback. An element that helps is building a stateful server and using streams where the people behave like servers:

    http://www.adama-lang.org/

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FunSQL.jl - Julia library for compositional construction of SQL queries

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wasmi - WebAssembly (Wasm) interpreter.

xvm - Ecstasy and XVM

blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.

MiniProfiler - A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET (and Core) websites

Rust-Full-Stack - Rust projects here are easy to use. There are blog posts for them also.