[HN Gopher] Elo - A data expression language which compiles to J...
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       Elo - A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript,
       Ruby, and SQL
        
       Author : ravenical
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2026-01-07 11:59 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (elo-lang.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (elo-lang.org)
        
       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | I really like this idea! I wish I knew other data expression
       | engines for js.
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       | 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.
        
       | Levitating wrote:
       | Third example on the site does not in fact compile to SQL
        
       | h1fra wrote:
       | 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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