Re: Boost MySQL Review Starts Today

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-12 10:50:04

>
> I can't imagine a C++11 implementation of meaningful compile-time query
> checking. C++11 and 'constexpr' is like a toddler at doing maths.
>
> Please don't get me wrong - I appreciate every effort to improve the
> library landscape. But if the bar is that low I have a hard time seeing
> the benefit of this library given that there's sql11 out there for years.
>

The main benefit of this library is providing the user an async
API (plus being compatible with any user code already using Asio).
The licensing also differs.

sqlpp11 is a different kind of library: higher abstraction level, provides
uniform access to different SQL flavors. It does not provide any
async API though. If it did, Boost.MySQL could be used by sqlpp11
as a backend to access MySQL. What I mean is that I don't think
that higher level libraries (like sqlpp11 or any ORM) are competitors,
but can build on top of this library, instead.