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> FWIW, personally, I'd rather go the full-Python, using newlines as delimiters:

I love Python - mostly, but significant whitespace is its worst curse, and I'd love new languages to move away from the idea. I enjoy Rust because I can write out garbage faster than I can think of it, and the auto-formatter will make it look neat.

Also, have you experienced the unspeakable horror that is templating YAML files? Of course in SQL prepared statements is the safe&sane way to go, but there are cases where you still have to generate SQL as text, such as when building an ORM.



Aside: I avoid ORM hell by using SQL to generate source code.


I'm slowly shifting in that direction as well, but the libraries built around this style are far less mature / mainstream. Django is the "boring" solution and gets hella work done.




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