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5recommend
2warn against
Dec 16, 2025first mention
Jul 31, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used fordatabase accessgo database accessmigrationstype-safe sql in rustdatabase access in rustside projects

Why people recommend it

“You’d have a better chance of getting your PR accepted into https://github.com/Vinovest/sqlx”

“I actually took a lot of inspiration from sqlx, which is really nice.”

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“ended up settling on `sqlx` + hand-written SQL”

Caveats and dissent

“Atlas, sqlx, sqlc and all other ORM like things in golang cannot do migrations the way Django does.”

“The issue is a legitimate bug in sqlx related to how they use the whoami crate”

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Who recommends it in their own words

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“You’d have a better chance of getting your PR accepted into https://github.com/Vinovest/sqlx”

“something like my pull request for sqlx https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx/pull/990”

“Atlas, sqlx, sqlc and all other ORM like things in golang cannot do migrations the way Django does.”

“I actually took a lot of inspiration from sqlx, which is really nice.”

“The issue is a legitimate bug in sqlx related to how they use the whoami crate”

“Yesterday I updated our dependency on the sqlx crate”

“built entirely in Rust (actix-web, sqlx, askama)”

built a profitable SaaS in Ruston “An Incoherent Rust”

“currently using it at a high-level (Axum, SQLx, Clap, Reqwest, Bevy) on side projects”

Backend, platform, and infra engineeron “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)”

“ended up settling on `sqlx` + hand-written SQL”

“Nope, it really was part of the design”

“I'll be deep in the `sqlx` documentation”

“We use Leptos, Axum, Postgres with SQLx.”

Threads where it came up

Also written as SQLx. Data: sqlx.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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