I like the idea of a semantic Layer but don't think defining it in yaml is the r...

articsputnik · 2025-08-20T08:57:28 1755680248

Yeah, we still have them, MDX before and now DAX :)

I curate some more on here in case of interest: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/data-modeling-languages.

efromvt · 2025-08-20T12:34:44 1755693284

MDX really did it well, at the cost of being impenetrable to the average user - the drilldown flow you could get is still hard to beat.

Shameless plug for the list, though - I work on https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogy - semantic layer directly embedded in otherwise (mostly) SQL syntax.

I'll do an equivalent example on the taxi dataset when I have some time.

12ian34 · 2025-08-20T15:38:29 1755704309

kermatt · 2025-08-20T00:02:41 1755648161

Anything but a markup language / JSON.

12ian34 · 2025-08-20T08:23:30 1755678210

are you using Malloy in prod? Do you know of anyone? I remember the Malloy hype during Data Council in 2023. Haven't heard about it since.

aszen · 2025-08-21T07:30:23 1755761423

Not yet, but it's evolving nicely, the original team moved to meta and they are building interesting open source stuff

apwell23 · 2025-08-20T14:16:49 1755699409

i think the team moved on from google ( which was the main benefactor)