PSpstuart·Sep 29, 2022
Would this do? https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
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Generate type-safe code from SQL
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Generate type-safe code from SQL
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This looks really cool to me, because I love to write SQL. Except for that `UPDATE` statement. That... is a problem. Looks like there is an open discussion about this on the…
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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5 sourcesAs the post you're replying to describes, magic is antithetical to Go idioms. An ORM is basically database-as-magic, every ORM in Go is just a nightmare.
Something like sqlc[0] is leagues better than any ORM in terms of simplicity, complexity and maintainability.
0: https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
In Show HN: Copper – A Go framework for your projectsIf you're using postgres, I'm a major fan of the anti-ORM (ROM?) that is sqlc. Nothing I've used comes in Go close in productivity or safety (and ability to write proper queries but use them very simply, and stay up-to-date without too much extra toil). Last I checked they're also working on adding sqlite support.
https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/
In Show HN: Copper – A Go framework for your projectsIf you don’t mind the codegen being written in Go, it does look like these folks also want to do the same thing for TypeScript.
https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/issues/296
Given the success of packaging other Go and Rust tools into npm, like esbuild, I suspect it’s probably actually not too bad of an idea.
In Everything that makes working with databases easierFWIW for SQL, sqlc[1] is probably the nicest SQL layer I've used in any language.
[1] https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
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