[thoman23]

I get that you're talking about Typescript, but I just want to say that Scala excels in this area as well. I found Slick to be a pleasure to work with once I embraced not trying to map directly from a relational model to an object model, but instead to just use Scala's ability to manipulate and reshape the relational model as needed.

[bunderbunder]

I've come to appreciate that model, too.

Somewhere in one of his talks, Rich Hickey goes on this great mini-rant about, "Why can't we just let data be data?" I wish I could remember exactly which one it is. Maybe "Simple Made Easy"?