> Other way to say it is that ORM is a workaround to the fact most languages are VERY poor at manipulate data. This is why I love Clojure (and a particular sty

> Other way to say it is that ORM is a workaround to the fact most languages are VERY poor at manipulate data. This is why I love Clojure (and a particular style of Javascript). Destructuring and a good library of object/array manipulation functions make an environment well-suited to transforming data structures (which is precisely what I want to do in most programs I write), and I find I do not need an ORM where this type of data-focused programming is supported.