At the peak of my hyper typing trip, doing lots of Haskell and C++, I was trying...

8n4vidtmkvmk · 2025-05-18T22:43:18 1747608198

Kysley does a good job of this. I haven't found it annoying.

Well... I think MySQL is a 2nd class citizen so I had to write my own schema gen but that only burned a few hours. Now it's great

riwsky · 2025-05-19T01:43:04 1747618984

On the other hand: https://kysely.dev/docs/recipes/excessively-deep-types

codr7 · 2025-05-19T19:24:29 1747682669

Is it though, or are you currently enjoying the same trip?

I mean, take a step back, is it worth the effort?

hdjrudni · 2025-05-20T04:20:34 1747714834

Kysley is worth the effort, yes.

Prisma and Drizzle...those gave me a bit too much heck. Kysley is close enough to SQL while offering some benefits, typings being one of them, but also query builders are often helpful when I need to run subtle variations of the same query, e.g. depending on the user's permissions or to add search filters.