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by digitaltrees 41 days ago
I love an ORM. I think much of the problems people experience with ORM, OOP, Restful routes, is because they get the domain model wrong. When you model the data correctly you don’t need to have complex queries that push ORM beyond their breaking point.
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the_af 40 days ago
I think it's more complex than just about getting the domain model wrong. ORMs introduce tradeoffs and are inherently complex and full of caveats (both when deciding to use one or not), as amusingly pointed out in the much-discussed article from 2006: "[Object-Relational Mapping is] The Vietnam of Computer Science" [1]

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[1] https://archive.is/QVPj (excuse the archive link, Ted Neward's blog seems now lost to linkrot).

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throwaway2037 39 days ago 

    > I love an ORM.
No trolling: What langauge and what framework? One thing I can say from experience: I have seen some teams where they have deep knowledge of an ORM framework, and they are crazy productive when writing enterprise CRUD software.
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