alt Hacker NewsExcept for the "multiple ORMs" part which is a level above it, it applies to the only one I've used extensively: Django for python. It has standard defaults, but just about everything overridable, and because models are python objects you can add methods or properties for extra data. There's even ways to define your own field types (the "serialization/de-serialization of individual properties"), which a decade ago people were using to provide json fields through libraries long before it was officially supported.
...and Django was like this 15 years ago when I first started using it. The core design hasn't changed, it just sounds like most other ORMs don't really know what they're doing.
>and Django was like this 15 years ago when I first started using it. The core design hasn't changed, it just sounds like most other ORMs don't really know what they're doing.
Django is an opinionated web framework that uses an ORM, not just an ORM.
Django can by all means be a great way to make a web site (I have little experience with it) but if you have a db that is accessed by various systems written in Java, dotnet, erlang or whatever else I suspect the smooth sailing of Django can run into headwinds quickly and the python plumbing you have to deal with then quickly becomes an issue in itself.
But I admit it's just a guess.