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I used to really dislike django ORMs since I had a background in SQL and thought that ORMs are really constraining and not as flexible as just writing SQLs. How

I used to really dislike django ORMs since I had a background in SQL and thought that ORMs are really constraining and not as flexible as just writing SQLs. However, recently I have come into the realisation that not everyone who programs knows SQL (woah, what a revelation right?), and the django ORM is a really nice tool to fill that gap for them with something they are more familiar with (ie python objects).

bayesian_horse 7y ago
If you are using any language other than SQL, then you better have a way to convert SQL data to the appropriate data types of your language and vice versa. And it better be injection-proof and reusable. That's already at least half of an ORM right there. I think I know SQL fairly well, but I don't see how I could implement things like django admin, form validation, template views etc as elegantly on top of plain SQL. So I really don't agree with "ORMs are only useful for SQL-noobs".