i have been working with ORM and plain SQL for the past 10 years in a bunch of languages and libraries (php, java, javascript, Go). The issue i have with ORM an

i have been working with ORM and plain SQL for the past 10 years in a bunch of languages and libraries (php, java, javascript, Go). The issue i have with ORM and other libraries that supposedly reduce the work for you is that it's black magic. You will encounter yourself one day having to dig into the source code of the library to tackle nasty bugs or add new features. It's exhausting. When I started using Go I mostly used plain SQL queries. I took on the manual endeavour to map and hydrate my objects. Sure, it's more manual work, but abstractions have a cost too. That bill might have to be paid one day. One way or the other. Personally, I am never looking back. But every one of us has has a different use case. Therefore ymmv