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Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL

39 points • by ravenical • last Wednesday at 11:59 AM • 5 comments • view on HN

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h1fra • yesterday at 10:49 PM

Love the idea, but I don't think this "built for [...] non-technical users" works. All the examples were more confusing to me vs a regular programming language and definitely not accessible to non-technical users.

Also, why would I want to compile to multiple languages? If I'm building a no-code platform, I won't bother supporting 3 different languages since I'm the only one seeing the code.

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Levitating • yesterday at 9:44 PM

Third example on the site does not in fact compile to SQL

fastball • yesterday at 11:31 PM

Targeting Python, Ruby, and SQL seems impossible if you want certain features.

jauntywundrkind • yesterday at 9:41 PM

I really like this idea! I wish I knew other data expression engines for js.

I feel like adding filtering languages into our http endpoints is one of those forever bespoke tasks. This is probably not the right form for tackling that problem, since it is a fairly complex query language & processor and doesn't cleanly map to something we'd use in a URL query string. But it makes me miss odata a little bit. And it makes me wish there were more visible popular options for data expression languages.