Sqlc 1.19 just dropped. Its headline feature is the new command sqlc vet that checks queries against lint-style rules:

rules:
  - name: no-pg
    message: "invalid engine: postgresql"
    rule: |
      config.engine == "postgresql"
  - name: no-delete
    message: "don't use delete statements"
    rule: |
      query.sql.contains("DELETE")
  - name: only-one-param
    message: "too many parameters"
    rule: |
      query.params.size() > 1
  - name: no-exec
    message: "don't use exec"
    rule: |
      query.cmd == "exec"

It includes a built-in rule that’ll connect to a configured database and prepare every sqlc query against it, which in addition to the parse, adds more certainty that queries are well-formed.

We’ve been on sqlc for a year and a half now. Occasionally I find myself missing the flexibility of an ORM, but every time I do, I recall the obtuseness of DSL and the lack of certainty that what you write is correct. Sqlc by comparison is a little rigid at times, but aside from that, we’ve observed negligible downsides.

See also How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres + Go.