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0 pointspydry2y ago0 comments

I have never seen an ORM in my life that didn't reduce the total amount of code written. Not even the Java monstrosities increased the SLOC.

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Perhaps it depends what you're doing?

IMO:

    .where('column_a', '=', 'value1')
    .and(q => q.isNull('column_b').orWhere('column_b', '=', 'value2')))

is a lot less readable than:

    WHERE
       column_a = 'value1'
       AND (column_b IS NULL OR column_b = 'value2')

In Django that would be .filter(column_a='value1', Q(column_b__isnull=True)|Q(column_b='value2'))

And obviously you can use whatever indentations you like.

Ah, that's quite a bit nicer. You can't do that in JavaScript on two counts:

- No keyword arguments

- No operator overloading (so you can't override | to get the nice "or" syntax)

One of these my IDE can typecheck and apply code hightlighting, the other is just a blob of text.

pjmlp2y ago

On my case that would be SQL, as I use nice SQL aware IDEs for Oracle and SQL Server.

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