SemanticQL

What it does

SemanticQL is a lightweight CLI that lets you query PostgreSQL in plain English directly from your terminal without AI agents or heavy abstractions. It reached 6,000+ views on Reddit within a day of launch.

Deterministic natural-language to SQL engine without LLMs. - dhruv2x/semanticQL

SemanticQL is a lightweight CLI that lets you query PostgreSQL in plain English directly from your terminal without AI agents or heavy abstractions. This is an experimental project built to understand the under-the-hood structure of parsers, tokenizers, and ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees). The goal is to make everyday database lookups feel fast, intuitive, and less annoying. You do need reasonably clear English, but you definitely don't need to be Shashi Tharoor . Simple, everyday words are all it takes. semanticql > show startups with founder_name starts with sam sort by funding desc yes! that simple. If PostgreSQL is already configured locally (psql setup), SemanticQL automatically uses the…from github.com

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