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I love ORMs, they help abstract the database technology which has been really useful in a recent project switching an app from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. I also perso

by EToS 10y ago

I love ORMs, they help abstract the database technology which has been really useful in a recent project switching an app from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. I also personally as developer appreciate the programmatic syntax. I would caveat the performance issue, sometimes there is no better way, however i would always try to make things work in the ORM first before switching into native SQL to get the job done.

nommm-nommm 10y ago
> they help abstract the database technology If you are going to do anything even remotely complex you're going to need to know that database technology otherwise your ORM is going to spit out queries that are dead stupid and a performance nightmare (pages taking 1 full minute to load). Then you end up fighting with the ORM to do what you want. That's my experience. I guess there are projects that are so simple the database layer can be abstracted away but I've never worked on one.