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by erik14th 3177 days ago
Ecto is really interesting, but it's not an actual ORM[0], Elixir doesn't deal with objects, there's a free book on ecto that's pretty interesting:

[0]http://pages.plataformatec.com.br/ebook-whats-new-in-ecto-2-...

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Oh, I guess that's true in the sense that it doesn't map to objects but it accomplishes the same goal in a functional style. Maybe call it a Struct-Relational Mapper.