First time I see a library with static typing for the database

[Sleepful]

This is the first time I see a library (in general for any language) that provides some actual strong guarantees in terms of static-typing deserealization from database rows.

I am just, shocked? This is amazing, why is this the first time I ever see this idea put into practice? Even other statically typed languages rely on correctly and manually hand-typing the types for deserealized DB data, which has been a source of much bugs and pain.

Are there any libraries that do anything remotely similar? A db-first type-generation. The closest thing is something like Prisma and even then, that's still not it. Prisma is a code-schema-first, and then it migrates the database to match the code.

Diselrs simply blew my mind.

[weiznich]

Thanks for the kind words. It's always great to hear that people like the crate.

I'm aware of the following other libraries that provide a similar approach:

• esqueleto (Haskel)
• sqlx (rust) (although that's a slightly different approach again, that has a few practical limitations to what can be inferred)
• sqlc (go) (similar approach as sqlx with similar limitations)