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Re:Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTo... by baq on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:02PM (#29686461)
Boilerplate. Writing serializers and deserializers by hand is not an efficient use of developer time.

Related to ORMs, but not quite on topic - query building. Type checked queries, parts of which can be passed around business logic, are very powerful and flexible.

Re:Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTo... by ithkuil on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:56PM (#29686884)
There are more and more libraries that let you to write SQL and bind the results into native records (objects, structs) in the host language. I find it an interesting middle ground