The technical design for views was recently completed, and I expect to see them added soon :-) Window functions & CTEs are only very recent features in MySQL 8

The technical design for views was recently completed, and I expect to see them added soon :-) Window functions & CTEs are only very recent features in MySQL 8.0 (TiDB is 5.7 compatible). None the less, they are important for HTAP workloads, and I'm looking forward to seeing them too.