SQLC for me has been able to replace most cases of use an ORM for. It made most of the boilerplate of using plain SQL go away, I get type safe responses, and it forces me to be more mindful of the queries I write.

In an app where we do use an ORM (Prisma), we sometimes have weird database spikes and it’s almost always an unintended heavy ORM query.

The only two things I miss in solutions like sqlc are dynamic queries (filters, partial inserts) and the lack of a way to add something to every query by default (e.g., always filtering by tenant_id.)