Hacker News Reader

How can I possibly condense 24 years of deep knowledge in one comment for you?

The tldr is if you're ever concatenating strings in order to build a query you're just doing what the entire job of orm is but rolling your own and chances are you'll end up with a bunch of bugs in how you handle well.... Everything.

View on HN

I think your tone is a bit combative. You can certainly provide the cliff notes but if you want me to believe you’re at working at computational limits whilst talking to me about string concatenation in web dev backend languages I think the burden of proof is on you.

I don't think OP ever expected you to believe anything. He stated his experience and nothing more

Oh it was just a flex?

Ok then!

the amount of vitriol my comment generated was unexpected. i was sharing that my experience was the opposite of the comment I was replying to. So many people have read things into it that simply do not make sense to me, including this one. It wasn’t a flex, it was a statement of experience that was simply a different experience than the post I was replying to asserted as truth. As a senior member of the data team, I interact with developer teams regularly and suggest manual handwritten sql for particular performance edge cases, and I met with the response I mentioned. It’s not me not being the team player, it’s the development team using the ORM that has decided that the level of effort to maintain handwritten and ORM sequel is too much for their team to handle

Reply on news.ycombinator.com