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by InsideOutSanta 466 days ago
"Every abstraction on top adds extra complexity and isn't really necessary"

This. In my experience, every project that has non-trivial query requirements starts out as "this ORM is nice, it takes away 90% of my work" and ends with "how do I get rid of that leaky abstraction layer that constantly makes my life harder."