IMO ORMs are an abstraction too far. I’d rather use a query builder. It gives you better control over the query if you must use such an abstraction. Of course I

IMO ORMs are an abstraction too far. I’d rather use a query builder. It gives you better control over the query if you must use such an abstraction. Of course I would much prefer raw SQL and then doing the mapping to objects and serialization myself but that’s not for everyone and yadda yadda move fast … startups etc etc