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Maybe, but at least it is not immediately clear to me why scrapscript is better than SQL. The homepage of scrascript says: > Scrapscript is best understood
by hintymad 3y ago
Maybe, but at least it is not immediately clear to me why scrapscript is better than SQL.
The homepage of scrascript says:
> Scrapscript is best understood through a few perspectives:
> “it’s JSON with types and functions and hashed references”
> “it’s tiny Haskell with extreme syntactic consistency”
> “it’s a language with a weird IPFS thing”
It later says: "Scrapscript solves the software sharability problem."
None of the statements addresses the commonly recognized shortcomings of SQLs.
In contrast, PRQL's value proposition is clear: it improves the readability and composability of SQL by offering a linear order of transformation through a pipelined structure. In addition, it is based on relational algebra so database professionals can still apply the theoretical framework that they understand and trust to master the language.
- tacone 3y agoHello, thank you for your answer. There's apparently more in scrapscript than what's written on its homepage. I didn't really meant to compare it to PRQL, but at the same time it probably offers some of the propositions of PRQL: extreme composability, functional programming (so: pipelines) and some more.