It is not always necessary to explicitly use prepared statements, though. For example, the pgx library for Go [1] and the psycopg3 library for Python [2] will automatically manage prepared statements for you.

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jackc/pgx/v5#hdr-Prepared_Stat...

[2]: https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/advanced/prepare.html