SQLAlchemy is such a bloated piece of crap. Even without the fact that many consider ORMs an anti-pattern, this library is extremely janky, salty and uncomfortable to work with.

Thanks to the huge wall of text on each page, their docs site is burdensome to navigate through on its own, and on top of that, I have to read the cached version, because the live site is down right now...

Compared to other offerings it really is hard use. Compared to TypeORM its an ancient monolith

@Koolman42 I can compare to peewee, another Python ORM. peewee is simple and minimalist, the most straightforward mapping from database entities to Python objects. Taking a step back, I have no idea what had made me choose SQLAlchemy in the first place.

lol, I found alchemy great to work with. It was natural to create classes that match the tables. I dunno, it did what I wanted.

Python was never meant to run a backend server.

Flask, SQLAlchemy, feels like a clunky enterprise mess from the 2000s

@searchy2 I never thought of using it for backend. I used it in an app. Is that worse?

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

- plus author provides docker images

Bit of documentation to read, but it's really easy and my go-to method when I need a fast microservice