Laravel has Eloquent and it’s an absolute delight to use. I’ve used Rails and Django, and I always felt as if I was fighting the ORM, where as with Eloquent everything just seems natural.
Then Nikolas Burk reached out to me and did his absolute best to convert me, but I was stuck in my ways, it HAD to behave like Eloquent, or it was not good enough and that DSL layer? No thanks, I don't like it.
Started writing code for my own ORM when I was like "What the heck am I doing? this gets me nowhere" And messaged Nikolas back saying I was dropping everything and planned to give Prisma a real solid try.
I'm so glad I did. I LOVE it now. I consider it a part of my GOAT stack.