I recently used SQLAlchemy for the first time and was delighted it has something I’ve always wanted in Laravel’s Eloquent: columns are referenced by identifiers on the models rather than plain strings.

Seeing `.where(Foo.id == Bar.foo_id)` was a little jarring coming from a language where `==` cannot be anything but a plain Boolean comparison, but it’s nice to know that if I make a typo or rename a field, it can be picked up statically before runtime.