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