Installer prqlc avec Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• prqlc

Historique du projet

PRQL began with a January 2022 proposal for a pipelined relational query language. A growing open-source group spent the following months building the compiler and integrations, declaring version 0.2.0 ready for use in June 2022. The CLI binary became prqlc around the 0.4 series, and the compiler crate was later renamed from prql-compiler to prqlc as part of a consistent project-wide naming scheme.

Historique d'adoption

The January 2022 proposal reached second place on Hacker News and brought roughly 2,500 GitHub stars within days, according to the project's changelog. The compiler later gained Homebrew packaging, release binaries, Linux packages, a stable Snap, and bindings for several programming-language ecosystems.

Modes d'utilisation

Users write relational transformations as left-to-right pipelines and run prqlc to compile them into SQL for a selected database dialect. The CLI also supports formatting, watching files, debugging compiler stages, lineage output, and experimental syntax highlighting.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

prqlc is interesting to language and data-tooling packagers because it turns an alternative relational syntax into ordinary SQL rather than requiring a new database runtime. Its Rust implementation, cross-platform binaries, many bindings, dialect targets, and formatter and language-tooling work give it a footprint beyond a single CLI.

Chronologie

• January 2022: The initial PRQL proposal was published.
• June 2022: PRQL 0.2.0 was declared ready for use.
• July 2022: The compiler became available through Homebrew Core under its earlier prql-compiler name.
• January 2023: A directly installable prqlc CLI crate was released.
• February 2024: The compiler naming was standardized on prqlc.
• July 2026: Version 0.13.14 shipped cross-platform binaries and Linux packages.

Related projects

• The wider PRQL project includes language bindings, a web playground, editor integrations, and Lutra query-runner work. prqlc emits SQL for existing databases rather than executing queries itself.

Sources

• Official PRQL Language Book: https://prql-lang.org/book/
• Official changelog: https://prql-lang.org/book/project/changelog.html
• Official releases: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/releases
• Official repository: https://github.com/PRQL/prql