This is rudimentary, experimental, proof-of-concept alternative code for generating Org agendas. It doesn’t support nearly as many features as org-agenda.el does, but it might be useful in some way. It uses some existing code from org-agenda.el and tries to be compatible with parts of it, like org-agenda-finalize-entries and org-agenda-finalize.

Here’s an example of generating a kind of agenda view for today (note that the grouping is provided by org-super-agenda, not this code:

(org-agenda-ng "~/src/emacs/org-super-agenda/test/test.org"
  (and (or (date :date '= (org-today))
           (date :deadline '<= (+ org-deadline-warning-days (org-today)))
           (date :scheduled '<= (org-today)))
       (not (apply #'todo org-done-keywords-for-agenda))))

Here are some other examples:

(org-agenda-ng org-agenda-files
  (and (todo "TODO" "SOMEDAY")
       (tags "computer" "Emacs")
       (category "main")))

(org-agenda-ng org-agenda-files
  (habit))

(org-agenda-ng "~/org/main.org"
  (or (habit)
      (date :deadline '<= (org-today))
      (date :scheduled '<= (org-today))
      (and (todo "DONE" "CANCELLED")
           (date :closed '= (org-today)))))