Designing and deploying information systems nowadays can be truly a hard task. In most cases, we must know multiple programming languages and frameworks. Every appli… See more

The first advantage is that we can use the backend’s own language to code all data access. For instance, to gather a list of persons we would need to write a function similar to th… See more

On the other hand,to properly use ORM, we must go through its steep learning curve. Even though it uses the same language our code is based on, ORM has its own usage semantics … See more

In short, yes, we should use an ORM whenever possible. The advantages, for most applications, exceed by far the disadvantages. Besides, we can still use, if needed, ra… See more