Ecto is one of the very best things about elixir from my perspective. It seems bizarre that anyone would have this great tool uniquely available to their language and want to ignore it.
ecto is awesome, don't get me wrong. i really enjoy it. not saying the slightest i want to ignore it, but i simply found HugSQL to be an absolute pleasure to use when I was learning Clojure. I like ecto, but i liked HugSQL more.