Good point. We had great success doing this with our PHP code base. For us it wasn't about pretty or not-pretty code, but rather about type safety. The idea tha

Good point. We had great success doing this with our PHP code base. For us it wasn't about pretty or not-pretty code, but rather about type safety. The idea that you can have a method which accepts "WhereClause $constraints" instead of "string $constraints" means you can be much more confident that the code is correct. We actually wrote a custom query builder because none of the available ones (e.g. Doctrine) had the type safety that we desired. A direct parallel to what we used is the Java library JOOQ, in terms of its querybuilder API [0]. [0] https://www.jooq.org/doc/3.10/manual/sql-building/sql-statements/dsl-and-non-dsl/ https://www.jooq.org/doc/3.10/manual/sql-building/sql-statem...