Why use Rust on the back end?

• validator

  18 1,802 6.8 Rust

  Simple validation for Rust structs (by Keats)

• sqlc

  169 10,837 9.7 Go

  Generate type-safe code from SQL

  

Why don't you use sqlc + pgx? What's missing from the two?

https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc

https://github.com/jackc/pgx

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pgx

  71 9,452 9.1 Go

  PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

Why don't you use sqlc + pgx? What's missing from the two?

https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc

https://github.com/jackc/pgx

• rust-playground

  67 1,168 9.5 Rust

  The Rust Playground

  

Here's an example I threw together: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Hopefully that gets the gist of how you might approach it. I'm not sure I'd use the HashSet myself, to be completely honest, because it makes it needlessly complicated to get an element out of it. I'd probably just use a Vec.

• sqlx

  144 11,742 9.2 Rust

  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. (by launchbadge)

  

> Doesn't it need to run introspection queries to check the table structures?

Yes, but it can also run in 'offline' mode where it builds against saved metadata [0]

0: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/blob/main/sqlx-cli/READM...

• diesel

  82 11,930 9.5 Rust

  A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust

  

Please reach out on the diesel discussion forum[1] about the lacking dev experience. I'm happy to discuss these issues and potential solutions there.

[1] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/discussions

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