I am really happy to see some more exploration in the typesafe-db-access-in-Rust space.

> The existing libraries don't provide the compile time guarantees that I want and are verbose or awkward like SQL.

Worth noting: diesel definitely fulfills the "providing compile time guarantees" criteria.

Here's where I stand on the inevitable ORM-vs-no-ORM debate that's about to erupt: I like typesafe query builders that don't abstract over sql ( I'd put diesel in this category, and i would not put activerecord or djangos orm or sealORM in this category).

It looks like rust-query will lean towards the full-ORM side of that spectrum. Not my cup of tea, but the tea industry can accommodate many flavors :)