Ask HN: How many people still build their own data access code generators/ORMs?
Just trying to get a feel, I work on a fair number of client projects annually and I don't see this much anymore but have ran into two recently. Basically where someone has decided that they are going to build their own ORM or database code generator. Usually I see Hibernate, nHibernate, Activerecord (or based on it), Dapper, Entity Framework or any of a dozen commercial equivalents.<p>If you build your own, generally why do you do it? What features are missing that cause you to do it?<p>If you use standard frameworks, what is your reason to do so?<p>My own 2 cents is I always use and steer clients toward using an appropriate well supported framework as generally they aren't in the database business. Clients just want to store and retrieve their data in a clean simple way without lots of coding or overhead. But I am just wondering if I am missing something??