They have never arrived in the mainstream, but they exist as a niche luxury item, mainly because the mainstream use broken languages with broke runtimes that can't persist objects between sessions without getting their pointers in a twist. So they settled for the next best thing: Object Relational Mapping, along with a matching pair of Impedance Mismatch. It's ORMs that are coming and going; at least in the industry hype-machine.
They have never arrived in the mainstream, but they exist as a niche luxury item, mainly because the mainstream use broken languages with broke runtimes that can't persist objects between sessions without getting their pointers in a twist. So they settled for the next best thing: Object Relational Mapping, along with a matching pair of Impedance Mismatch. It's ORMs that are coming and going; at least in the industry hype-machine.