I find the majority of what you contribute to HN very insightful; I appreciate your activity here! I've yet to use an ORM that I've found added much or any value, and usually I have to fight it. I find "select id from user where email='[email protected]'" much easier to work with than some odd query build that requires some DSL that made sense to some developer for their particular use case, like user.Get(id).Where().Email("[email protected]). My most recent case of growing disdain for ORMs being SQLAlchemy. What ORMs do you find (in any language) that you like and what is it about them that helps you?