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Should I use an ORM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm wondering if I should use Diesel in my project. I feel more comfortable writing SQL directly because I've used it before, but I've never done a database migration, I always deleted the database when I had to change it. So I don't know if I should learn Diesel to get migrations automatically or learn to do them directly in SQL. What would you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If you're just doing static queries against one database, sqlx will probably be your best friend. You can easily access the raw power of the database using a simple async API. Diesel starts to get more powerful when you change your queries based on something like parameters to a web API. You can do that yourself, but you'll be reinventing the wheel (and probably adding in vulnerabilities).