The basic design for Roda was taken from Cuba (it's a fork of Cuba), and I think if you read the Roda source, you wouldn't find it difficult to understand.
There are certainly parts of Sequel that are overly clever, I won't argue that. But compared to similar libraries, I don't think it's worse in that department.
There are certainly parts of Sequel that are overly clever, I won't argue that. But compared to similar libraries, I don't think it's worse in that department.