[johnh-hn]

Dapper is fantastic, and I'm happy to see it getting some love. It does exactly what I want: provides strongly-typed mapping and protects against SQL injection. It makes it easy to create domain-specific repositories without leaking anything.

In contrast, every company I've joined that used Entity Framework had enterprise products that ended up being a tightly coupled mess from IQueryable<T> being passed around like the world's favourite shotgun.

[pjmlp]

In my case, it has been either applications where Dapper is possible, or very high abstractions in CMS like Sitecore and Optimizely, where they come with their own approach which then again, needs a whole indexing engine.