Technically linq isn't an orm, but I guess there's still a lot of overlap with points in the article. Eg you still need to know SQL and the linq abstraction on

Technically linq isn't an orm, but I guess there's still a lot of overlap with points in the article. Eg you still need to know SQL and the linq abstraction on top of that. What I like about linq/EF is that it doesn't force you into other anti patterns (active record, repository etc) but that's probably just a matter of opinion.