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by kgwxd 182 days ago
Copilot is what finally pushed me to use vim seriously. There's not a single thing I miss from VS Code, or Visual Studio, and I'm not even using neovim. Also dropped .NET, which I've used professionally since Framework 1.0, in favor of Go. Don't miss anything from there either.
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CharlieDigital 182 days ago 

    > Don't miss anything from there either
Not even EF Core? C# pattern matching and switch expressions? Linq? I find these very hard not to miss when working in other langs. C# is a fantastic programming language nowadays.
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kgwxd 182 days ago
EF Core!? Holy cow, no. Stopped using that years ago. Linq is nice, but I don't really miss it.
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CharlieDigital 182 days ago
What's a better ORM in terms of productivity and ergonomics?
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array_key_first 182 days ago
IMO no ORM. I've only had issues with ORMs. They work okay-ish in the very bare-bones usecases, like inserting one record into one table or fetching one record. After that, their semantics just impede your velocity.

You can represent really, really complex data retrieval and consolidation semantics in SQL. ORMs are really more of an organizational tool in my mind.

I just throw all the SQL functions into a repository class around one "thing". Not even object, it can be related functionality or operations.

SQL in code can be awful, if spread out across your codebase. So I think just don't do that.

We have a monolith that gets maybe ~1000 commits a day. We don't use an ORM, just SQL and query builders. It works out if you have good modularization.

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