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To be honest, Ecto is not an ORM, it's a query builder with superpowers. More so Elixir is a functional language and technically the O in ORM is missing. I love
by nesarkvechnep 6y ago
To be honest, Ecto is not an ORM, it's a query builder with superpowers. More so Elixir is a functional language and technically the O in ORM is missing. I love Ecto, I've never seen something as easy to use and maintain but it's not something Java folks would call an ORM.
- pieterb8 6y agoTrue indeed, certainly not an ORM. But I would say the effect you can achieve with it is very close to what a proper ORM can do, much more so than the lower level frameworks java people are now recommending.