sigh Not this argument again. I'm all for learning SQL (just like one should always learn foundational concepts), but for some reason there's this notion poppi

sigh Not this argument again. I'm all for learning SQL (just like one should always learn foundational concepts), but for some reason there's this notion popping up that Real Programmers use Raw SQL, just like 20 years ago Real Programmers used Assembly. For the love of God, stop hating on basic software engineering principles like code-reuse and allow us to move up the abstraction hierarchy like we do in literally every other facet of software development. Here's a comment I made on the issue of ORMs vs Raw SQL a while back that goes into more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134205 In the past year I've also grown very fond of type safety within my ORM coding as well, something that's hard to achieve at compile time with just raw SQL.