[evanelias]

My thoughts exactly. But it's a major paradigm shift for those coming from the world of Rails/Django/etc migrations, and that unfamiliarity understandably leads to some initial resistance and skepticism.

fwiw, other declarative tools are starting to pop up -- besides my tool Skeema, some others I've seen recently are Migra [1] and sqldef [2]. And meanwhile a bunch of enterprise tools for MS SQL Server have operated in the declarative fashion for quite a long time, although usually with GUIs instead of being git / pull-request-driven. So I think/hope it's just a matter of time before this concept becomes more widely known.

[1] https://github.com/djrobstep/migra

[2] https://github.com/k0kubun/sqldef/