[GyrosOfWar]

From what I've read in the Play documentation, this is intentional. [0] They say:

> SQL is already the best DSL for accessing relational databases.

I have no real opinion on the matter, as someone who doesn't like working with databases very much, I appreciate the comfort a ORM mapper gives me, but so far, all my web apps have been very small and basically trivial, so I don't know how they work with bigger projects.

[0]: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/ScalaAnorm

[TylerE]

I don't find working the SQL in Scala to be very much fun. You end up having to write lots of marshaling functions and other such cruft that isn't application logic. As someone used to dynamic languages this makes the code very ugly and verbose.