Does any language have a built in ORM? I was thinking maybe Ruby, but even that is a gem.

An interesting question, I did some googling and didn't find anything.

Not that surprising I think since an ORM is probably better in a library since that allows more flexibility across systems.

Yes, kind of, in X++:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_AX#MorphX_an...

Would Entity Framework qualify as a "built-in" ORM for .net languages?

edit I guess not, since it's a nuget package now. Maybe LINQ to SQL could have been considered a built-in ORM?

> Maybe LINQ to SQL could have been considered a built-in ORM?

It might be more accurate to say LINQ is built into the languages, but LINQ to SQL is a .NET platform feature, not a language feature. (Of course, the languages are so tied to the Microsoft distribution and the .NET platform that distinctions between language features, language standard library features, and platform features are, for .NET languages, somewhat academic in practice [inasmuch as there is a practical difference that is likely to matter, "does it work on Mono" is probably more important than strict language/library/platform distinctions].)

a couple of client+server web languages, like opa and ur/web.