[jamestimmins]

Few things I want more than for someone to extract the Django ORM from Django so we can use it standalone instead of SQLAlchemy

[boxed]

You can just use it though. There is no need to extract it.

[Onavo]

The migrations commands and configs are all tied to manage.py, hard to use without setting up the full boilerplate.

[boxed]

It's not really tied to manage.py no. And in any case that's a trivial 3 lines of code (plus imports, blank lines: https://github.com/iommirocks/iommi/blob/master/examples/man...).

I think you're overdramatizing 3 lines of code...

[yuppiepuppie]

Have you heard of Tortoise ORM? https://tortoise.github.io/