I wouldn't say "remarkably little". There's "relatively little", esp. compared to Rails. I'd even say there's little magic compared to Django. But try to pee

I wouldn't say "remarkably little". There's "relatively little", esp. compared to Rails. I'd even say there's little magic compared to Django. But try to peek under the hood of Phoenix.Helpers someday... And also, don't ask too many questions about how Ecto drivers work... I tried writing an ecto driver once and gave up. Props to the people who made the Sqlite3 driver.