I'd tend to agree with you in javascript-land, but the Django ORM is black magic...the (mostly) performant and complex queries you can build with it are simply

I'd tend to agree with you in javascript-land, but the Django ORM is black magic...the (mostly) performant and complex queries you can build with it are simply amazing. Add in the migration system, and it's really tough to complain, especially since you can always drop into raw sql as needed.