I am officially done with ORM’s. My latest experiment was ent, a code gen based ORM for Golang. Works fine, I like the API, and then you want to do something slightly complex and it just doesn’t work. I wanted a many to many with extra data in the join table, so for so good, this did work. Until I wanted to make it not unique. I needed this because I wanted to add one track multiple times to a playlist, in my current project. But this was not allowed, the codegen would not build. Other people have the same issue but no solution is known. So my solution is to rewrite my code again, this time with pgx. I also have tried and used sqlc in some projects but it won’t scale for my current project. But I do like it a lot for smaller projects, like this blog uses it for example.

I have tried a lot of ORM’s over the year but I am finally done, not a chance. They are cool great until they are not, then they are just a pain.