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  h1fra
  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.
• cjohnson318
  What would I use this for? Everything in the examples is pretty easy to do in scripting languages like Python, JS, and Ruby.
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  egonschiele
  Maybe the most incredible part – did Claude write a recursive descent parser from scratch for this? https://github.com/enspirit/elo/blob/9f07fefcdf65c169089f123...Not that it's super complex, but I'm surprised it didn't pick up an npm package. I wrote tarsec[1] and have been eyeing ohmjs[2]. And of course nearley is a classic.[1] https://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec [2] https://ohmjs.org [3] https://nearley.js.org
• Levitating
  Third example on the site does not in fact compile to SQL
• fastball
  Targeting Python, Ruby, and SQL seems impossible if you want certain features.
• NetOpWibby
  This looks perfect for people who desire terseness above all. The examples make my head hurt.
• jauntywundrkind
  I really like this idea! I wish I knew other data expression engines for js.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.