Rust doens't have objects. (Trait objects kind of come close but are very rare and I've never used one with Diesel.)
I think if you read the post, you'll see that Diesel is very data-driven.
Personally, I tend to call it a "query builder" if I think someone might be ORM-phobic; I find it closer to that than other ORMs, even though it's authored by the maintainer of one of the most massively popular ORMs ever. They've sometimes joked that that experience has taught them what not to do ;)
I think if you read the post, you'll see that Diesel is very data-driven.
Personally, I tend to call it a "query builder" if I think someone might be ORM-phobic; I find it closer to that than other ORMs, even though it's authored by the maintainer of one of the most massively popular ORMs ever. They've sometimes joked that that experience has taught them what not to do ;)