ORMs have been a huge time saver for society. They line up pretty well with the "enterprise"-y software most of us write. They eliminate a good class of potential errors involved in marshalling data through SQL. The amount of things only expressible in SQL has gone way down over the years. There is a bit of a danger in how ORMs get used. The classy nature of ORMs make us reach for seductively simple OOP tools. But these tools cut us sharply, especially when working in a language without much ...
