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This was my first thought as well. I like the language, but I’m hesitant to adopt it without tooling that can extract an AST, ideally interoperable with the hard-won tooling we already have for SQL.

Improved UX at query development time is nice, but data teams need so much more than this. Stuff like lineage, linting, cross-dialect interop - these are no longer niche concerns, they are table stakes, and they come from having a shared syntax for data transformation.