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philipwhiuktoday at 4:32 PM1 replyview on HN

ORMs are a caching layer for dev time.

They store up conserved programming time and then spend it all at once when you hit the edge case.

If you never hit the case, it's great. As soon as you do, it's all returned with interest :)


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xigoitoday at 4:56 PM

The question is why we don’t have database management systems that integrate tightly with the progmming language. Instead we have to communicate between two different paradigms using a textual language, which is itself inefficient.

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