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I don't want to live in a world where I can't pop into a Rails console and run something like `Foo.joins(:bars).any?`.

More concretely, performance is on my list of "good problems to have". Businesses die in the time it takes to write raw SQL.

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sometimes performance can be so bad that the business can’t launch in the first place.

Oh sure, it's all about knowing your requirements. I write raw SQL when performance or complexity call for it. My intention was to argue that both have merits, not that ORMs are the one true solution.

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