SQL itself is a leaky abstraction. You're essentially hacking a sql expression and permuting it in different ways so it executes a specific imperative search al

SQL itself is a leaky abstraction. You're essentially hacking a sql expression and permuting it in different ways so it executes a specific imperative search algorithm. AN ORM is like a backwards abstraction. SQL abstracts imperative instructions into an expression. An ORM abstracts a SQL expression into imperative object oriented instructions. I get the reasoning though. It's to keep the developer from having to write foreign code within code. Sometimes, the ORM abstraction just isn't expressive enough. So I have this idea for an ERM. Expression relational mapper. Basically it compiles an expression based language into ORM methods. So like "SELECT * FROM TABLE" becomes table.all().