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As true now as it was 12 years ago: ORMs are the Vietnam of computer science. http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-science/ http://blogs.tedn
by lukifer 7y ago
As true now as it was 12 years ago: ORMs are the Vietnam of computer science. http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-science/ http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
(tl;dr: there is an impedance mismatch / leaky abstraction between relational data and OOP for all but the most trivial use cases, guaranteeing that whatever problems an ORM might solve will be traded for new ORM problems instead)
- zzzeek 7y agoI wonder how people of Vietnamese heritage would feel that you are characterizing their country as synonymous with war and disaster? IIUC Vietnam had been a relatively peaceful country for almost 50 years. Not coincidentally ORMs have been doing great since that silly article was written so many years ago.