What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
This was my position for a while. ORMs introduce a layer of magic which obscures what's actually going on under the hood. I decided I would just make raw SQL queries and handle mapping data explicitly.I quickly ended up with a lot of duplicated code. So then I thought, "Well ok, I should add a bit of abstraction on top of this..." I started coding some simple functions to help map the tabular data to objects. One thing led to another and suddenly I looked at what I had done and said, "Wait a minute..."