I recently stumbled upon this punchy one-liner: No More Hibernate!. At first, I couldn’t believe what I read. Then, scrolling down, I noticed that the site was linked to jOOQ, a framework that advocates for SQL to have a first-class status in Java: SQL was never meant to be abstracted. To be confined in the narrow boundaries of heavy mappers, hiding the beauty and simplicity of relational data. SQL was never meant to be object-oriented.