Jokes aside, I love the idea of ORMs; SQL is tricky to get right and has lead to so many serious security vulnerabilities I think we should all be happy if we stop generating it inside applications.
But I wish DHH had actually said something technical about why they are ready now when they were not before. Most people's complaints about ORMs was not that they didn't work at all, it was that performance sucked if you used them naively and learning to use an ORM was about as complicated as learning SQL.
Jokes aside, I love the idea of ORMs; SQL is tricky to get right and has lead to so many serious security vulnerabilities I think we should all be happy if we stop generating it inside applications.
But I wish DHH had actually said something technical about why they are ready now when they were not before. Most people's complaints about ORMs was not that they didn't work at all, it was that performance sucked if you used them naively and learning to use an ORM was about as complicated as learning SQL.