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I really like what PRQL[0] is doing. Fixes a lot of the unfortunate SQL syntax. My impossible dream is that after years of language stability, Postgres could make it a first party query language, and then all of the dominoes would start to fall.
[0] https://prql-lang.org/
There are many, but most never go further than SQL (ie: Are just a "query" language).
I'm trying to do it for a "general purpose" language where array + relational + functional + imperative can work together:
https://tablam.org
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One of the biggest damage that SQL has caused is that SQL is so bad as being a programming language, is not good enough DSL and is weirdly the only game in town.
This is the deal with RDBMS. Is like: "Everyone implement a wild flavor a VM, sometimes JVM, .NET VM, Web Assembly, etc, but all use a slight variation of Java"
Is like the reverse of how things are done!
sqlglot might be what you are looking for.
https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot