hydra

Graph programming language (by CategoricalData)

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  • CQL: Categorical Databases
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2026
    If this sort of thing is interesting to you -- using type theory and category theory to add compositionality to programming and databases -- also check out CQL's cousin, the graph programming language Hydra: https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra.
  • Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2025
    Reminds me of the work done at Uber with Dragon

    https://www.uber.com/blog/dragon-schema-integration-at-uber-...

    Unfortunately it never got open sourced but Joshua left for LinkedIn and started working on the LambdaGraph project and the Hydra language that are open sourced.

    You can find more information on this fascinating work here:

    https://github.com/CategoricalData/hydra

    I think these approaches, including all the semantic web stuff from 10+ years ago, suffered from the added overhead of agreeing and formalising semantics and then of course maintaining them.

    I wonder if LLMs can help with that part today.

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CategoricalData/hydra is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of hydra is Haskell.


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