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I know Prolog (from college) and SPARQL (from hobbyist dinking around with SemWeb). I love DSLs and weird languages. I should be almost the ideal Datalog user,

I know Prolog (from college) and SPARQL (from hobbyist dinking around with SemWeb). I love DSLs and weird languages. I should be almost the ideal Datalog user, so how did it stay completely off my radar until this post?

OJFord 7y ago
Because it's a niche tangent of an already niche language. I'm only aware of it because a databases course taught it (relational algebra to datalog to SQL) and I thought it was superb, and a couple of times since I've tried to find if I can use it, but it seems to suffer from the combination of age + academia + proprietariness that makes such things hard to discover and use. (Compared to graphql and plethora of open source libs on Github, etc.)