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While web programming in Prolog has been insightful, I think there are more expedient areas of application for the language. Prolog is especially underutilized

• segmondy 7y ago
  Prolog is already a database, why bring in the mess of an external DB. I have used Prolog and ODBC to access a postgres DB. I found it better to just export the data and turn it into a Prolog DB then process my rules than have it run all those logic across the wire.
  • The_rationalist 7y ago
    What about performance?
• chekovcodes 7y ago
  This is a database written in Prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminus-server https://github.com/terminusdb/terminus-server - albeit with a RUST storage engine - prolog's lack of types means there are better storage solutions, but for constraint logic, it's unbeatable.
  • ipnon 7y ago
    A statically typed logic language would be ideal for both
    • Avshalom 7y ago
      https://mercurylang.org/ https://mercurylang.org/
      • lliamander 7y ago
        Mercury is cool. I translated a simple Prolog program to it once, and it was a head trip. Hard to get my mind around, but also helped me see the connection between functions and relations.
      • ggleason 7y ago
        We evaluated the use of Mercury before settling on prolog for terminusDB. Mercury is a great language, but the community and library support is just a bit too small.
• namelosw 7y ago
  For Clojure, there is Datomic[0] (a DB with S-expression Datalog) and DataScript[1] (in memory Datalog for browser) which has a fair amount of usage. Also, there's a bitemporal database use Datalog name Crux[2] seems to be quite promising. [0] https://www.datomic.com/ https://www.datomic.com/ [1] https://github.com/tonsky/datascript https://github.com/tonsky/datascript [2] https://opencrux.com/ https://opencrux.com/