Show HN: AWKLog – a minimalist Datalog interpreter in Awk

Category: devtools

Tags: datalog, awk, logic-programming, interpreter, deductive-database

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 4)

AWKLog is a minimalist Datalog interpreter written in portable POSIX AWK, supporting facts, rules, recursion, and stratified negation. It's a compact building block for tools like build systems, though its reliance on AWK limits scalability and performance.

Target audience: backend devs, tooling engineers, logic programming enthusiasts

Repository: https://github.com/stass/awklog · Awk · BSD-2-Clause · 1 stars

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