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I see Postmodern and Elephant mentioned frequently around the web - but not in this list. Are they no good?
by WalterGR 11y ago
I see Postmodern and Elephant mentioned frequently around the web - but not in this list. Are they no good?
- zachbeane 11y agoPostmodern is good. It works only on Postgres. It is fast, easy, and stable. Elephant has been unmaintained for many years. I wouldn't recommend it.
- eudox 11y agoPostmodern is very good, it just slipped my mind as I haven't used it except as a reference when implementing my own ORM. But since Postmodern is Postgres-only, and is a very stable, maintained library (and I doubt the author has plans for the future, having mostly moved to JavaScript), it doesn't really fit into either 'future work' or 'consolidation'. As for Elephant, IIRC it's no longer maintained, and I think the model it presents -- just serialize CLOS objects, with whatever backend -- is the wrong way to go about it. Most of the time, it's better to be aware that you're using SQL, or a JSON file, or whatever your storage is.