I am a former PHP developer, absolutely loved Laravel and adored Eloquent as the ideal ORM. I switched to Node/JavaScript in 2015 and have been chasing a good ORM since, nothing could ever compare with Eloquent in Nodeland, I all but gave up and started building my own, in TypeScript to match Eloquent as much as possible.

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.