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In the defence of Object-Relational Mappers (event-driven.io)
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I’m an accidental DBA, but I still never quite got the hate for ORMs. I thought this article does a good job explaining the issue, and why they aren’t so bad.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

I wouldn't call that "near" SQL, I'd basically just call it SQL. Nothing wrong with that... SQL is great, and using proper language constructs instead of strings makes it even better... but it's not solving the some problem as an ORM.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    True, however it occupies the same niche an ORM occupies, without the foot guns. Updating a slew of different db tables from rather clean and straightforward models is relatively simple. It tries to live somewhere between just doing everything as SQL and abstracting everything away like AR does, giving you conveniences from both approaches. You don't get mired in scoping hell, but you don't have big ugly messes of nearly-identical SQL statements either.

    i'd recommend trying it out https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.html

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