Easy. If my editor shows no errors anymore, it will run, instead of crash due to my ignorance of alignment, leaks, etc.

I’m just a lazy developer, so blame me if you want. I just don’t want to learn that stuff if I don’t really really need to. I have to memorize enough already.

The way I perceive PRQL is somewhat like SQLAlchemy-Core (the SQL expression layer, not the ORM). Almost a 1:1 mapping to SQL but softening the rough edges in SQL when constructing more complex queries dynamically, in particular: no function calls, no real variables, only string concatenation. While SQLAlchemy-Core lets you even extract sub-queries into variables, I don’t know about how powerful PRQL is in this regard.

From what I see from the docs I’m rather hopeful though.

Corporate fuckups come in waves. We will have to wait for the next Twitter/Reddit/Threads/etc. protest wave and see.

This is great. Reddit wants to use it’s data to be fed to large language models, though not for free anymore. This poisons the data, making it less relevant.

Some other critter would evolve to take their niche. Not sure how long that would take though, but eventually there would be other insects which will annoy you.