Can you explain a bit more about the Django ORM being very thin and easy to read? It does seem like the Django ORM is thin (from an architecture perspective), b

Can you explain a bit more about the Django ORM being very thin and easy to read? It does seem like the Django ORM is thin (from an architecture perspective), but it doesn't seem to be small, it seems to be pretty big. Maybe I'm not understanding it though, so here's what I see: The "ORM" part of Django seems to be everything in `django.db.models.Model`, which seems to require you to declare your Models as subclasses of the aforementioned class. Looking into that code though, it seems like the implementation supporting all this is around ~20,000 lines of Python: https://github.com/django/django/tree/main/django/db/models https://github.com/django/django/tree/main/django/db/models That doesn't strike me as a super lightweight. For comparison, all of Flask (a Python WSGI web app framework, but mostly a 10+ year old project to compare to, and excluding tests) is ~4,000 lines of Python. Is there a small subsection of the code in `django/db/models/` that is all that's necessary to use the ORM part? Or maybe I'm missing something about the "core" of the ORM?