[dgb23]

I personally like those. They are qualitatively different from ORMs. They give you three things:

- sensible ways of composing queries beyond direct string concatenation

- safe parametrization

- return results into usable data structures (not objects)

None of these things carry the problems of ORMs. They don’t impose a paradigm that isn’t SQL. They simply let you interface with SQL in an ergonomic manner.