Re:To ORM or Not to ORM
by philliphaydon on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:43AM
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I believe StackOverflow uses dapper for reads and EF Core for writes. Linq2Sql was used because EF was pretty horrible. But EF Core is pretty awesome.
> Dapper's simplicity means that many feature that ORMs ship with are stripped out. It worries about the 95% scenario, and gives you the tools you need most of the time. It doesn't attempt to solve every problem.
so basically stack overflow used a ORM for years. and i think they still use LINQ to SQL in coexistence with dapper.