A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries

mpweiher | 104 points

Very cool! We developed similar technologies for a very different domain (insurance automation).

Side note: I also think that weaving logical inference and llms together into a virtuous cycle is an interesting topic to explore.

pwm | 13 days ago

I like the idea and the language. Being a declarative language, it's like Terraform on steroids (because of inference, but for Auth purposes). It can be put in a Git repo with CI/CD to deploy when changes are made. The only think I disliked is... semicolons :P

atbpaca | 13 days ago

> In fact, we could have used Datalog to achieve our data goals — but that would mean we have to build our own Datalog implementation, backing data store, etc. We don’t want to do that.

Surprising that creating a whole new language made more sense then a backend. I wonder if they did a proof of concept with an existing logic system like Souffle¹ or Rel² first.

¹ https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle

² https://relational.ai/blog/rel

srhtftw | 13 days ago

I think it could be more impressive had it integrated with Hashicorp Vault or smth, I had always felt policy-driven development got inexplicably short legs, and otherwise too clumsy in the ergonomics dept

tucnak | 13 days ago

Oso seems cool. Is it something that can be run locally? Seems like there's an open source library of some kind, but it's deprecated.

Nelkins | 13 days ago

nice!

bmckim | 13 days ago

Seems like a lot of unnecessary complexity for something I could do with some if statements and lookups to a table in Postgres. Cool post, but why would anyone use this?

samoht625 | 13 days ago