alt Hacker NewsSQL, 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?
Claude had no problem translating SQL into Prela, and because you have fine grained control over the query plan (a Prela query is a plan), it was able to optimize queries to be very fast