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That is like saying Cocoa is a popular alternative to C++, but you prefer C++ because it allows you to write your own UI event loop.

I guess it is true if you really stretch your imagination, but does it mean anything?

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Yes, when I write a web app, I don't want to be stuck with extra code that abstracts away the database into a less-efficient object/class and forces me to break the convention of the framework to write the code that I need.

I suppose it's fine when many of then newer programmers don't even know or understand what's going on underneath anyway...

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