Same here. Django's was my first ORM, and at the time I didn't get all the hate directed at ORMs (except for making inefficient queries). Having used a few more

Same here. Django's was my first ORM, and at the time I didn't get all the hate directed at ORMs (except for making inefficient queries). Having used a few more ORMs since then, I still consider Django's to have found the best balance. I find the prevailing model of having DB rows mapped 1:1 to objects in memory and syncing changes automatically to be much more trouble than it's worth, sadly most ORMs seem to use it.