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Malloy is a modern open source language for describing data relationships and transformations.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 5 stories, 7 comments · first 2021-10-20 · latest 2026-04-14

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    Malloy
    story by tosh · 2026-04-14 · 0 comments
  2. Really cool! BTW since you're here, have you checked https://github.com/malloydata/malloy/ and their visualizations? it seems it could be a nice fit for ObservableHQ
    comment by oulipo2 · 2025-10-25 · in How to make a Smith chart
  3. …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40728938 Malloy - https://www.malloydata.dev/ https://github.com/malloydata/malloy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053860 PRQL - https://prql-lang.org/ https://github.com/PRQL/prql…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-08-18 · in Mangle – a language for deductive database programming
  4. “Malloy” is one one in the same spirit, but probably more comprehensive https://github.com/malloydata/malloy
    comment by e1g · 2025-02-13 · in SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery
  5. …> Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations. [0]: https://github.com/malloydata/malloy
    comment by anorak27 · 2024-11-17 · in Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data
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    Malloy: A language for describing data relationships and transformations
    story by tosh · 2024-03-17 · 1 comment
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    Malloy: A language for describing data relationships and transformations
    story by pretext · 2023-08-18 · 0 comments
  8. You sound like the exact target for Malloy, which was posted to HN recently: https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy
    comment by anon84873628 · 2022-09-11 · in Ask HN: Does anyone else think SQL needs help?
  9. This is the example at https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy query: table('malloy-data.faa.flights') -> { where: origin ? 'SFO' group_by: carrier aggregate: flight_count is count() average_flight_time is flight_time.avg() } SELECT…
    comment by cryptonector · 2022-09-06 · in A sequel to SQL? An intro to Malloy
  10. …it targets existing DBs through SQL queries but can also ask for schemas etc while developing. [1] https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy
    comment by maximilianroos · 2022-01-24 · in PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
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    Malloy – A Better SQL, from Looker
    story by maximilianroos · 2022-01-24 · 99 comments
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    Malloy: An Experimental Language for Data
    story by carlineng · 2021-10-20 · 1 comment