In the absence of a good reason not to use Python (and there are many case where one should not), I use it quite a bit myself. And usually (absent good reason) I use it with PostresQL. SQLAlchemy is a wonderful thing.

Granted, I am neither a database nor ORM savant, but I find that it makes explicit almost as easy as implicit - but with more safety! I haven't seen that elsewhere, but I haven't looked very hard either. I have heard claims that Groovy/Hibernate do this just as well as well, but it isn't clear to me that this is completely true.

You should check out what the Elixir folks are doing with Ecto. I'm a huge fan so far!

Thanks for the pointer. I'm already using BEAM in a project, so that wouldn't be a bridge too far for that one...

Conceptually, everything is a Schema and then you generate Changesets for DB operations like insert, update, etc. and apply various validations and transformations as a chain of function calls on the input map. No such thing as a model anymore. It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.

> It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.

That will probably confuse my procedural mind, much like declarative "stuff" often does! :-)