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by jasonwatkinspdx 1320 days ago
You ever run into a situation with SQL where you're trying to do something that's sorta tree shaped, and it makes the code awkward even if you use say vendor extensions for recursive queries? Datalog excels at those sort of problems.
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You can do recursive queries in SQL via standard CTE's, no vendor extensions needed whatsoever.
But I still need to send a SQL query to the database. How does a Datalog engine in Rust help me?
You put your data in the library to get your answer.
Oh, well you’ll get to post something to HN that’s “written in Rust”, isn’t that enough?

/s