> I would say if you are fortunate enough to be working with something like .NET, you can abuse the shit out of LINQ and not really feel the added complexity.

> I would say if you are fortunate enough to be working with something like .NET, you can abuse the shit out of LINQ and not really feel the added complexity. In my own database mapping code for my game (I use RethinkDB) I made a type called DatabaseLink<T> where T : DatabaseEntry, with a Value property that will retrieve the link target from the database cache. It's almost as fast/convenient as a simple field, and it serializes to a GUID.