Honestly I'm extremely happy with EF6 and LINQ. If you know what you're doing [1] it works extremely well. Having used EF6+LINQ in 2014 I feel this post from 2

Honestly I'm extremely happy with EF6 and LINQ. If you know what you're doing [1] it works extremely well. Having used EF6+LINQ in 2014 I feel this post from 2006 is quite outdated. The article tells you as much: > Work in this space has thus far been limited, constrained mostly to research projects and/or "fringe" languages, but several interesting efforts are gaining visibility within the community, such ... the LINQ project from Microsoft LINQ's come a long way since 2006. [1] Mostly this comes down to understanding the leaky abstraction between what IQueryable can do [2] with respect to what an ORM can do with SQL generation [2] Also knowing your IQueryables from your IEnumerables.