I'm working with Rust as a backend right now and can echo the Diesel experience. The issue is that there is not really much of a choice, it is either Diesel or

I'm working with Rust as a backend right now and can echo the Diesel experience. The issue is that there is not really much of a choice, it is either Diesel or not. So you have to stick with that. Another problem is that most OS projects in Rust are maintained by 1-2 persons who are not working on the project fulltime. That's not the case for JavaScript/Node as there are order of magnitudes more projects and people working in these platforms. His last example could be improved a lot with the "?" keyword. That would remove lots of wrapping and simplify the code greatly. So it's not that bad really.