[alberth]

ORMs?

Am I alone when I say that I still hand code SQL into my applications?

Regardless of what web framework I'm using (e.g. Pylons/Rails/Django/etc), I still hand code SQL statement in my applications.

I've had far to many times ORMs unexpectedly nuke performance and have other issues than what's it's worth gaining by using an ORM.

[reinhardt]

By "hand code SQL" I hope you really mean using prepared statements of whatever language/framework you're using, not concatenating strings with input values. If not, say hello to SQLi.

[Goranek]

writing raw queries for crud seems like too much effort, especially when performance is not important