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by robsinatra 2377 days ago
Rust doesn't seem to lend any advantages for this kind of tool, but I'm sure it took weeks to write (months?) rather than just a couple of hours. What can this do that bash scripts couldn't? This migration tool uses plain sql files. I'm not hating but questioning the use of a complicated language to do no more than what native shell scripts can, with ease.
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Just based on a quick skim of the readme, it looks to me like it supports, but does not require sql files. Presumably this tool works better for someone who already has a Rust application and wants to write Rust and not deal with SQL directly if possible.