ojglees

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   by ojglees 7y ago

   The counter-argument is that for a lot of applications you have a bunch of tables and a bunch of objects and there's a lot of repetitive, boring code to write just to get simple CRUD working. The hobby Java ORM tool I wrote ( http:&#x2
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   by ojglees 7y ago

   I agree that SQL as the lingua franca for talking to relational data stores is not ideal, and that in various ways it could be improved. I personally would start out with some of the issues of cosmetic syntax orthogonality, though I realize
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   by ojglees 7y ago

   I don't understand why writing an ORM requires creating a new query language. The point of an ORM, as I understood it, was to think about objects, not query languages. When I wrote my garbage ORM ( https://hrorm.org ) I just