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Comment by waisbrot

7 hours ago

In my experience, ORMs save a little bit of writing SQL and then cost an unbounded quantity of time in debugging mysterious problems because knowing why a query is slow now requires understanding the DB, your own code, and also the ORM.

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frollogaston  7 hours ago

And also more loc than SQL usually. It's not even a deferred cost, it's at least slightly worse upfront

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