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> Modern ORMs are fast, efficient, and very productive.

The author seems to be using Go, which honestly could use work in that area. gorm is the biggest / most popular ORM out there, but it looks like a one-person project, the author seems well worn-out already, and it kinda falls apart when you work with a data model more than one level deep.

Plus broadly speaking, there seems to be a bit of an aversion to using libraries in the Go community.

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GORM is nice for beginners because it's pretty easy to get started with, but in my experience starts to fall apart when you need to do anything more complex or start to scale up. I've had good experiences with SQLBoiler [0] on the other hand. I haven't used it in for anything in production, but it's been a breeze to use in a couple of personal projects, and it handles complex SQL queries much better compared to GORM.

0: https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

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