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0 pointsboxed2y ago0 comments

Djangos ORM isn't highly opinionated. That's just wrong.

> With the Django ORM, you are completely locked in to Django

Another bit of nonsense again. You have a dependency. Sure. Just like you have a dependency on Python. But it's an open source dependency, and the ORM part is a tiny part that you can just copy paste into your own code base if you want.

Also, worrying about being "locked into" something that you depend on is madness. Where does it end? Do you worry about being "locked into" Python? Of course not.

> You build around the framework, the framework never bends to your will.

You don't actually seem to understand Django at all. It's just a few tiny Python libraries grouped together: an ORM, request/response stuff, routing, templates, forms. That's it. You do NOT need to follow the conventions. You can put all your views in urls.py. You can not use urls.py at all.

You do NOT bend to the frameworks will. That's just false. You bend to it by your own accord, don't blame anyone else on your choice.

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joaodlf2y ago

> Djangos ORM isn't highly opinionated. That's just wrong.

It's a fully featured ORM... Including migrations, query API (which is HIGHLY opinionated, it looks nothing like SQL), supports async (via asgiref!), custom model definition... It's almost the definition of opinionated. Not that you can build a fully featured ORM without being opinionated. That's not a dig at Django btw.

> Also, worrying about being "locked into" something that you depend on is madness. Where does it end? Do you worry about being "locked into" Python? Of course not.

Ermm, my premise is that you DON'T have to depend on it. It's not that crazy to not want lock in when it comes to the software that handles my database. Other programming language communities seem to handle that just fine.

The rest is a bit too ad hominem for my liking, so I'll pass.

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