esqueleto VS mysql-simple

esqueleto

• Revisiting Haskell after 10 years
  8 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024

  Writing Haskell programs that rely on third-party packages is still an issue when it’s a not actively maintained package. They get out of date with the base library (Haskell’s standard library), and you might see yourself in a situation where you need to downgrade to an older version. This is not exclusive to Haskell, but it happens more often than I’d like to assume. However, if you only rely on known well-maintained libraries/frameworks such as Aeson, Squeleto, Yesod, and Parsec, to name a few, it’s unlikely you will face troubles at all, you just need to be more mindful of what you add as a dependency. There’s stackage.org now, a repository that works with Stack, providing a set of packages that are proven to work well together and help us to have reproducible builds in a more manageable way—not the solution for all the cases but it’s good to have it as an option.

• How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell: persistent + esqueleto
  1 project | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023

  However, we can use Esqueleto (”a bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries”) with Persistent's serialization to write type-safe SQL queries. It’s unlikely that you want to use Persistent by itself with SQL, so let’s use and review them together.

• What databases do you find the most productive to connect to Haskell?
  3 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Dec 2022

  Postgresql-simple is a great library, it makes a nice use of overloaded strings to do the job. Some other nice libraries to keep an eye on are opaleye (postgres specific, which is equally nice but could be a bit difficult to get why the types are so big) and a combination of persistent (not DB specific! can work on postgres, sqlite, but also noSQL DBs like mongo, it's still easy to learn but you lose some things, such as joins due to the power of being agnostic) + esqueleto for type safe joins (be sure to look up the experimental package, it's a more comfortable syntax that will soon become the default one).

• Notes on Luca Palmieri's Zero to Production in Rust
  1 project | /r/rust | 26 Jun 2022

  Using esqueleto in one of my haskell projects was a huge time sink and a major barrier to entry for colleagues.

• Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022

  In Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto

  Either it analyzes the given SQL to determine the in/out types of each SQL query, or it calls the database describe feature at compile-time.

mysql-simple

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