RE: https://fosstodon.org/@paulox/116102884603308581
A++ content. I was in a call with @mkennedy and @pythonbynight this week, where this topic came up again.
We looked, and I thought Django's package size was 200M bigger than it actually is. Django is only 10.9 MB compressed, which is within ~1 MB of SQLAlchemy, which is kind of impressive to think about.
So running the Django ORM doesn't quite have the same mental tax as I have assumed all of these years.
I’ve just published the first article of a new series on my blog: “Django ORM standalone” 🧩
The idea is to use Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to existing or legacy databases and work only with the ORM, without the rest of Django, using inspectdb for reverse engineering the schema and querying data with Django QuerySets 🔎
If you’re curious about using Django ORM this way, here’s the link, and let me know what you think 💡
https://www.paulox.net/2026/02/20/django-orm-standalone-database-inspectdb-query/
