6 engineers on Hacker News describe using SQLx first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I've been using sqlx + postgres very successfully with claude in the last couple of months.”
endorse · personal · kykat · 2026-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sqlx is great because it's not an ORM and lets you write "type checked" raw SQL.”
endorse · production · echelon · 2024-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The closest we came so far to bridging this gap in strictly typed language like Rust is SQLx, which creates a struct based on the database types returned by a query.”
mixed · production · levkk · 2024-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using SQLX means that you get compile-time database schema checking, including understanding if a return field could be null”
endorse · production · adampwells · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sqlx is actually type checked too, which is awesome.”
endorse · production · echelon · 2022-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated from sqlx to sqlc recently to speed things up.”
neutral · production · hactually · 2021-03-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?