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by obi1kenobi 1201 days ago
It's a very exciting time to be working in this space! Going beyond structured databases and file formats like JSON/CSV, there are also systems that can query APIs, source code, ML models, etc.

My own Trustfall query engine is one of them: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

For example, you can query the HackerNews APIs from your browser: "Which Twitter/GitHub users comment on stories about OpenAI?" https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDcm9zcyBBUEkgcXVl...

One of its real-world use cases is at the core a Rust semver linter: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...