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squalor

Go SQL utility library

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
207GitHub stars
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What it is

Go SQL utility library

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-12-15 20:39:19 UTC to 2016-12-24 04:42:03 UTC.

012016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 152016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 192016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 24

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Dec 152016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 162016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 172016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 182016-12-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 202016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 232016-12-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 242016-12-24 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I want to see the Go community and it's libraries flourish. But having libraries like this around which provide extra confusing and probably poorly maintained choices for users is detrimental to it's overall health. There's already great examples of maintenance rot found even amongst the very popular libraries like go-yaml and httprouter. One thing you can say about Go is it has 1000 Micro-frameworks, ORMs, Routers, and Logging libraries. Most of them are within a percent of giving the exact same feature set with the exact same approach and and ever so slightly different API. Lots of them share the same mistakes as they are a user's first project or a learning arena (though routing has been a pretty benchmarked area so that's been better than the others). As someone who has open source libraries, and who uses Go in their day job and at ho
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me my personal opinion is that Go needs fewer, stronger libraries. Well supported, well maintained pieces rather than this illusion of choice that's presented today. I'm sorry if I came off as crass in my reply to the OP but that's simply the state I see in the community today. Ideally there'd be 2-4 ORMs in Go that would be the goto. And half would use a code-generation approach, half would use the reflection based approach. https://github.com/astaxie/beego/tree/master/orm https://github.com/cosiner/gomodel https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm https://github.com/go-gorp/gorp https://github.com/coocood/qbs https://github.com/go-reform/reform https://github.com/vattle/sqlboiler https://github.com/upper/db https://github.com/astaxie/beedb https://github.com/naoina/genmai https://github.com/monochromegane/argen https://github.com/square/squalor https://github.com/theduke/go-dukedb https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox/tree/master/database/sq... (...and more) And now: https://github.com/samonzeweb/godb Do we truly need this? This one in particular feels a lot like upperdb. And if it's for learning only, don't publish it to things like hackers news which makes people seem like it's something you should use as opposed to the more mature libraries out there. This is what I meant by fragmentation, it's an illusion of choice. There are actually very few logging/routing/orm/micro-framework libraries you should really use if you're serious about a project.
In Show HN: Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server

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