The graphic under "Database tools are stuck with legacy paradigms" made me chuckle. Just because the tech under the "Legacy" column isn't the new hotness doesn't mean they're suddenly irrelevant or even a bad choice.
They graph control vs. productivity and then throw their solution way up near the top-right in the success quadrant, with a bunch of questionable "benefits" and very little justification.
It's not like I need to choose between an ORM, query builder and plain SQL either... Why can't I use any of them as the problem dictates?
Yeah, that graph is not something I can take seriously. It feels like they’re trying to convince me with pictures when they should be letting the product speak for itself.
In my experience, not much software is an outlier in performance like they’re claiming here. There are some standout projects that I really love and depend on (Postgres, rust, typescript, react), but even those aren’t ‘top right quadrant’ solutions. They also don’t claim to be, as far as I know
Yeah when I got there I went from curious to put off. That was the place to put an example showing something impressive rather than an iffy summary of web dev trends.
I clicked around a bit. I heard a lot about motivations but couldn't figure out a specific situation where I would be really happy to be using Prisma.
This is exactly it. I know prisma developers are here, and if I could express one concern to them, it’s that the content I saw was pretty fluffy and I left without a clear idea of why it’s worth adding into my tool chain.
Me too! They also don’t make much sense. The innovation in data storage was from “self-hosted” to “managed”. That’s quite a broad generalization over what’s happened in data storage over the last several decades.
