Java's ORMs are infamously clunky and both them and many of its modern frameworks make tremendous efforts to twist the language into an unidiomatic, dynamically

Java's ORMs are infamously clunky and both them and many of its modern frameworks make tremendous efforts to twist the language into an unidiomatic, dynamically typed thingy with a bunch of extra compilation in between. By comparison using and modifying ORMs in languages like Python and Ruby feels like second nature.