Not a fan of ORMs at all, especially ActiveRecord style. They just bring a costly new layer of complexity and not enough value to justify it. I do very much li

Not a fan of ORMs at all, especially ActiveRecord style. They just bring a costly new layer of complexity and not enough value to justify it. I do very much like the object hydration that ORMs bring though. I think libraries like Dapper hit the perfect balance of manual everything vs automagic complexity.