[eluser]Jondolar[/eluser]
I don't get ORMs. They are soooo resource intensive and for the most part, approach database access and management that violate some best practices.
I spent several months working with Doctrine, only to realize that I could write Active Record code just as fast, make modifications during design time much faster, feel confident that every query was highly optimized and not be painted into a corner with some missing feature or change in direction of the original project.
Now that I think about it, the code gurus that work on CI could probably come up with a kick-ass ORM that would make sense, be easy to use and easy to optimize.
