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> There is ZERO honor in offloading what could have been a SQL view into a shitty pile of nested iterators somewhere. I don't understand where any of this energy comes from. The less code the better. It's pure downside.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. As to why we use ORMs, the impression I get from the engineers I work with is that many of them a) don’t know SQL and b) feel like it’s “data analyst” stuff and so beneath them to learn it. Real engineering requires objects and inheritance or structs, pointers and arrays (depending on the engineer).

I think it’s the declarative nature of SQL that turns them off.