EF Core
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Aug 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I was against ORMs until I used EF Core in .NET which I really loved.”
“compared to something like EFCore in .NET, they don't come as close”
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“I use SQLite, EFCore, Minimal APIs and it is a delight”
“EF Core itself is worth the price of admission, IMO.”
series-C YC startup engineer switching from TypeScript to C#on “.NET 10”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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Data: ef-core.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I use EF Core for database stuff”
“I was against ORMs until I used EF Core in .NET which I really loved.”
“compared to something like EFCore in .NET, they don't come as close”
“I use SQLite, EFCore, Minimal APIs and it is a delight”
“EF Core itself is worth the price of admission, IMO.”