This really depends on the quality of the ORM. I used to write Java software, and Hibernate with QueryDSL saved me probably _months_ of typing. And I dare say,

This really depends on the quality of the ORM. I used to write Java software, and Hibernate with QueryDSL saved me probably _months_ of typing. And I dare say, produced much nicer-looking code. And for most of the code, the performance and overheads were negligible. C# with LINQ is even better, it provides strong typecheck for the queries and often has almost zero overhead. I'm using Go now, and I don't even want to touch any of the available ORMs because they all suck, compared to the state-of-the-art in Java circa 20 years ago.