[karlmdavis]

I find it kind of baffling that this toolkit is so popular when it makes handling database joins so difficult. After bashing my head against it for a while, I moved to Diesel, and while that has its own set of problems, I am generally able to get through them without resorting to horrible hacks or losing compile time checks.

[cryptonector]

What do you mean? It takes SQL queries. You use the `JOIN` keyword in the SQL to do joins.

[rellfy]

What problems have you had with joins? I have this comment in one of my projects:

``` It is required to mark left-joined columns in the query as nullable, otherwise SQLx expects them to not be null even though it is a left join. For more information, see the link below: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/367#issuecomment-... ```

Did you have other problems beyond this, or are you referring to something different?

The issue above is a bit annoying but not enough that I'd switch to an ORM over it. I think SQLx overall is great.