Comment by jmalicki
5 days ago
Upon reflection, my comfort with sqlalchemy, diesel, C++ STL, and vibe coding all share one thing in common - I am pretty comfortable liking to code at a high level that is productive, while at the same time going deep to know what the abstractions produce under the covers. E.g. I at least spot check my vibe coded code, I spot check the assembly from C++ STL to ensure zero cost abstraction, I spot check the SQL from sqlalchemy or Diesel.
I am thinking a lot of people are not comfortable with this.
Personally, super high level abstractions where I do know what ultimately results is personally what I want to be productive - so this may color my love of Rust, vibe coding, and Diesel.
Thanks for taking the time! I love being able to see through abstractions too, but for web applications I'm looking for a bit more "magic" (e.g., .NET's EF Core is the gold standard for what I'd look for in an ORM).
That's exactly why I like Diesel, it's probably the closest thing out there to EF core outside of .NET