Object-relational Mapping?

[eluser]Mark Huot[/eluser]

It seems like EllisLab is committed to superfast, super-efficient systems. In my opinion, ORM tends to increase load while only serving to make coding a little easier.

I'd argue that it makes coding a lot easier, but that's neither here nor there and probably deserves it's own thread.

Ultimately, EllisLab is creating a product for themselves, so if ORM is not something they would ever use in their products, like EE, then I don’t see why they would spend time on a tool they have no intention of ever using.

I couldn't agree more! I can't tell you how many projects I've started for someone else only to deliver a 90% complete product not realizing the other 10% was missing because I simply wasn't invested.

So, thanks for the update @colin. Here's to hoping EllisLab needs an ORM because they could certainly build a much more optimized version than my current 100+ query version.