I agree with this (sort of). I find Entity Framework very usable and it does help you write descriptive and maintainable code, but the SQL queries it ends up wr

I agree with this (sort of). I find Entity Framework very usable and it does help you write descriptive and maintainable code, but the SQL queries it ends up writing makes it a performance nightmare. YMMV of course but for applications where performance is important I haven't found EF to perform adequately. As ORMs go all I really want is an abstraction layer and the mapping from query to POCO classes without the performance hit. Currently using Dapper.