On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:05:54 UTC, w0rp wrote:
* An ORM, which absolutely must have a way to build queries a piece at a time without writing any SQL, like Django. * A framework for generating all of the SQL required for database migrations like South or the built in migrations in Django 1.7, so you can quickly change any model.
I am a Laravel developer, that's PHP inspired in Rails and Django. It has migrations, a query builder, ORM, form generators, etc.
However, well before we get to 'I want an ORM' stage, there are many things to be done first, as a DB foundation layer:
- Unified database API. For PHP is the PDO objects, for java is JDBC, it would be great to have a D DB standard set of objects, it should have database, table, rowset, row, field objects. They should not be part of a particular DB driver implementation. Rationale: I can change one single line in a laravel configuration file, rerun the migrations and seeds and have my system working in a different DB platform than before. It just works.
- A way to use all available SQL data types. I deal with money data, stored as DECIMAL (30,4). The Mysql driver throws an exception when I try to execute a query that reads DECIMAL data. This makes the whole D platform a non-starter for the company I work for.
