alt Hacker NewsYou're not entirely wrong. But SQLAlchemy's approach and design are still awful and confusing. There are much, much better tools/libraries out there.
You're not entirely wrong. But SQLAlchemy's approach and design are still awful and confusing. There are much, much better tools/libraries out there.
I don't disagree that it's tremendously overpowered. You can use SQLModel with FastAPI if you want a more minimal API surface that uses SQLA under the hood. As a user I just don't have to deal with most of its complexity on a day to day basis so it doesn't bother me and I don't think it's a bad end state for a swiss-army knife of a query library.