[will_byrd]

I agree.

Much of the success of miniKanren has been due to it not trying to be an Everything Language.

The most pragmatic variant of miniKanren, core.logic in Clojure, was popular because it didn't try to replace Clojure's behavior in general. Clojure programmers don't want to write a web server or financial application in a logic language, but might want just a bit of miniKanren-like reasoning in part of their application.

As pointed out by @giraffe_lady, pragmatic core.logic-like small embedded domain-specific language implementations in other popular languages would be useful.

The original motivation for miniKanren was to have a small, simple, easy to learn/teach/hack implementation of logic programming that could be taught to students learning functional programming in Scheme. microKanren in particular seems to have nailed this, especially since you can wrap macros around microKanren primitives to get miniKanren, and since microKanren can easily be implemented an almost any language. Once again, the fact that miniKanren and microKanren don't try to do everything is probably a key reason for their success from a teaching standpoint.

[usgroup]

If you know of a few serious applications of miniKanren in the wild, it would be great to see. I also like the idea of logic programming as a library but I’ve seen enough Prolog to know that making logic programming viable takes a sophisticated interpreter, and I’ve yet to see Kanren indispensable to an application.