Martin Fowler: ORM Hate (martinfowler.com)

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This is a pragmatic piece of Fowler on the rather dry topic of Object-relational mappings - in short, the attempt to marry an object-oriented code base with a relational data base.

Usually you'd get enough early success to commit deeply to the framework and only after a while did you realize you were in a quagmire - this is where I sympathize greatly with Ted Neward's famous quote that object-relational mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

What Fowler refers to here, is Ted Neward's article "The Vietnam Of Computer Science"

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[-] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Having seen what the ORM hate leads to. Just use the ORM folks. Far better in the long to do so! Nothing has come close to ActiveRecord imo in Typescript or Python sadly. Unless anyone has a library or two I should check out?

[-] lukalix98@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Jooq is cool if you happen to use Java.

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Haven't tried it, but functional programming methods (as in Clojure) combined with Datomic / Datalog sound interesting. It is said to be quite good.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

You can check out my library, Nymph.js. It’s what powers Port87.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot of open source code showing how to use it, since it was developed specifically for Port87, which isn’t open source. But there are test files that show how to use it.

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