Based on your experience, how many of you would recommend fluent NHibernate over Nhibernate way of doing things for my new project?

I like Fluent NHibernate and I think it's mature enough if you are going to start a new project. Using it on a new project should allow the Fluent NHibernate project to continue to mature as yours progresses. There is a possibility for breaking changes (as happened recently with the convention mappings) but you should be able to deal with those.

I've had a few issues with the mappings but the project is pretty responsive to bug reports and has mostly worked as expected.

One of the best advantages of using Fluent Nhibernate over vanilla NH is nice integration testing with PersistenceSpecification.

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