> have a bizarre aversion to applying the same learning effort to their ORM. SQL is a lingua franca while an ORM is specific to a stack. If you know that you

> have a bizarre aversion to applying the same learning effort to their ORM. SQL is a lingua franca while an ORM is specific to a stack. If you know that you will always, say, be using SQLAlchemy on Python, then learning it well might be a good investment, but I don't find learning multiple ORMs to be a good time investment over just learning SQL. Most every stack has good, lightweight query builders.