Minor nit: ORMs and associated pain go back at least as far as Smalltalk (Objectivity/DB from 1990), pretty much before the rest of the world discovered OO. There was a lot of energy put into OO databases, to little avail.
I always wondered what really happened to OO databases. They were supposed to be the future... 20 years ago. And then MySQL exploded and everyone went back to tables. What was the problem: speed, difficulty, price, all of the above...?
I’d love to hear an insider perspective from anyone who might have worked on those things.
I’d love to hear an insider perspective from anyone who might have worked on those things.