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esqueleto is a bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries that works
-with unmodified persistent SQL backends.
+with unmodified persistent SQL backends. Its language closely resembles
+SQL, so you don't have to learn new concepts, just new syntax, and it's
+fairly easy to predict the generated SQL and optimize it for your
+backend. Most kinds of errors committed when writing SQL are caught as
+compile-time errors---although it is possible to write type-checked
+esqueleto queries that fail at runtime.
WWW: https://github.com/prowdsponsor/esqueleto