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SQL provides state-of-the-art, high-performance SQL integration for Elixir, built to handle extreme concurrency with unmatched expressiveness and ergonomic query composition. Write safe, composable, parameterized queries directly, without translating to Ecto or any ORM.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-05-05 · latest 2025-12-22

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  1. SQL is great, but what is even better is a SOTA client. https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql the BEAM can give you superpowers that no other platform can, handle massive concurrency with the performance that rivals bare metal and c…
    comment by schultzer · 2025-12-22 · in The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know
  2. …to punch above it’s weight with SOTA libraries. As an old developer once told me: less is more. https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql
    comment by schultzer · 2025-10-16 · in Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
  3. If your language has macros you can get by as well https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql
    comment by schultzer · 2025-05-16 · in Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
  4. …probably want to build a lexer and parser based on the BNF grammar take a look at how I do it here https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql/tree/main/lib and do conformance testing with https://github.com/elliotchance/sqltest
    comment by schultzer · 2025-05-16 · in Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
  5. Not really sure what a t string is or if it’s a macro, but feel similar to https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql but less elegant and ergonomic.
    comment by schultzer · 2025-05-16 · in Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
  6. …database. For obvious reasons. Although it would be great if it spoke SQL, maybe one day it will: https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql since we can already pass it and get the AST.
    comment by schultzer · 2025-05-13 · in Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir
  7. …matching is that it makes it extremely approachable for writing, lexer, parser and compilers in it: https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql and with Elixir macros and sigils then you can embed other languages like sql and zig to name a few!
    comment by schultzer · 2025-05-13 · in The Beam
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    Fast, extensible and composable SQL sigils in Elixir
    story by schultzer · 2025-05-05 · 0 comments