[pmontra]

Actually Ecto is the most unhappy part of the Elixir ecosystem to me. It's unnecessarily complicated for almost any software project. I'd even take Django's ORM instead of it, but what I want is something close to ActiveRecord. There are some Elixir modules similar to AR, none popular.

[josevalim]

It is tragically funny how many people like and how many people dislike Ecto. :) I guess that's "ORM"s in a nutshell? Which is totally fine, of course!

[1_player]

Ecto is not an ORM, and an ORM like ActiveRecord would never fit a functional, immutable language anyway. Ecto is a query builder and DSL.

But I may be biased, I _love_ Ecto and have been using it every day for the past year, and have never come across something as powerful yet lightweight (perhaps SQLAlchemy, ignoring its ORM features).