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Gnata-SQLite won't save you $500K/yr, but it might be fun

Playground · Docs · GitHub Go + JSONata = Gnata / Gnata + SQLite = Gnata-SQLite Recently, RecoLabs made the front page of Hacker News with “Saving $500K/yr” by rewriting JSONata from JavaScript to Go with AI. They outline turning an agent loose for 7 hours and $400 in tokens to produce 13,000 lines of Go passing all 1,778 official JSONata test cases-starting with the full test suite, then the rest of the codebase. ...

April 2, 2026 · 5 min · rbby