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minism on May 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go

You have to be careful because sometimes productivity is just an illusion caused by accruing technical debt that you have to then pay for in time later. With database abstractions you often pay back this debt once the app reaches even slight complexity and you need to spend a lot of time understanding, debugging and refactoring query flows.

pphysch on May 15, 2022 [–]

Writing backend with raw SQL: $10

Writing backend with a rigid, verbose, mostly type-safe ORM: $5

Writing backend with a terse, expressive ORM: $2.50

Adding type annotations to the previous code: $1

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