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What You Can Build with Diesel, and Which Projects Use It

Diesel is a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust, and you can use it to build database-backed applications that range …

How Diesel Differs from Active Record-Style ORMs

Diesel is built to be abstracted over, while Active Record-style ORMs are built to be inherited from. That single design choice c…

What Performance Benefits Does Diesel Offer Compared to Writing SQL?

Diesel's main performance benefit is that its query builder compiles to the same SQL you would have written by hand, so you get R…

How Diesel Prevents Runtime Database Errors in Rust

Diesel prevents runtime database errors by moving the checks into the Rust compiler: queries are built as typed Rust values, so a…

What Is Diesel and What Is It Used For?

Diesel (diesel.rs) is a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust. It is used to interact with relational databases from Ru…