Hi, it sounds good to me.
Regards JB On 30/11/2018 15:29, Jan Lukavský wrote: > Hi community, > > I'm part of Euphoria DSL team, and on behalf of this team, I'd like to > discuss possible development of Java based DSLs currently present in > Beam. In my knowledge, there are currently two DSLs based on Java SDK - > Euphoria and SQL. These DSLs currently share only the SDK itself, > although there might be room to share some more effort. We already know > that both Euphoria and SQL have need for retractions, but there are > probably many more features that these two could share. > > So, I'd like to open a discussion on what it would cost and what it > would possibly bring, if instead of the current structure > > Java SDK > > | ---- SQL > > | ---- Euphoria > > these DSLs would be structured as > > Java SDK ---> Euphoria ---> SQL > > I'm absolutely sure that this would be a great investment and a huge > change, but I'd like to gather some opinions and general feelings of the > community about this. Some points to start the discussion from my side > would be, that structuring DSLs like this has internal logical > consistency, because each API layer further narrows completeness, but > brings simpler API for simpler tasks, while adding additional high-level > view of the data processing pipeline and thus enabling more > optimizations. On Euphoria side, these are various implementations joins > (most effective implementation depends on data), pipeline sampling and > more. Some (or maybe most) of these optimizations would have to be > implemented in both DSLs, so implementing them once is beneficial. > Another benefit is that this would bring Euphoria "closer" to Beam core > development (which would be good, it is part of the project anyway, > right? :)) and help better drive features, that although currently > needed mostly by SQL, might be needed by other Java users anyway. > > Thanks for discussion and looking forward to any opinions. > > Jan > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
