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by sph 38 days ago
> ActiveRecord is more pleasant to work with than the ORM of Phoenix IMHO

A stateful mechanism vs a data mapper? Absolutely not. Being able to write `user.save()` is such a lunacy, thank god we have functional languages that (necessarily) decouple storage from data models.

I cringe every time I have to use imperative, stateful languages.