moebius

I don't understand why people use Ecto (or ActiveRecord, or...) Back in the day, I'm pretty sure we were using Hibernate and friend because our software was shipped and we wanted it to work with whatever database the client was using. But for a hosted software, what's the point? Not having to know SQL or details about PostgreSQL / the underlying DB ? Apps should be using SQL directly, and for cases where you need dynamic SQL (like, you're where clause is different based on some query string parameters), you can have a low-level query builder (1) (1) I'm not affiliated with it and have never used it, but a good search came up with https://github.com/robconery/moebius which, at least from the readme, is roughly what I'm talking about.

If you like ecto but want something closer to the metal (no need to define type mapping), then check out https://github.com/robconery/moebius I vastly prefer it over ecto, and ecto is awesome.

I enjoy everything about Elixir/Phoenix except Ecto. Maybe it's just my personal taste since I also disliked Linq and Ecto is very similar. What I want is something closer to Rob Conery's https://github.com/robconery/moebius. We're using Ecto, but I'm still looking for that easy tool that just seem wonderful to me. $.02