Features

Preql is a programming language, a library, an interactive shell, and a set of tools.

• Modern syntax and semantics
  • Interpreted, everything is an object
  • Strong type system with gradual type validation and duck-typing
  • Modules, functions, exceptions, tables, structs
• SQL integration
  • Compiles to SQL whenever possible (guaranteed for all table operations)
  • Escape hatch to SQL (write raw SQL expression within Preql code)
  • Support for multiple SQL targets
    • SQLite
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • BigQuery
    • Askgit :)
    • More to come!
• Python integration
  • Use from Python as a library
  • Call Python from Preql
  • Pandas integration
• Interactive Environment
  • Shell (REPL), with auto-completion
  • Runs on Jupyter Notebook, with auto-completion
• Thread-safe
• REST+JSON server, automatically generated

Planned features

• See the roadmap