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What's the point of this when you have EF?
by dhgfhf 14y ago
What's the point of this when you have EF?
- anton_gogolev 14y agoDoesn't it suck?
- Griever 14y agoNo, Dapper does not suck. I too have been using Dapper at our company recently and its been an incredible boon to our db performance and code readability. Plus, if its good enough for the Stack Exchange team, then its plenty good enough for me.
- crescentfresh 14y agoThe "Doesn't it suck" comment was not directed at Dapper.
- Griever 14y agoWhoops! Sorry for the misunderstanding then. I was using the Hacker News+ Chrome extension and it nested the comments incorrectly...
- adolfojp 14y agoThe first versions of EF sucked badly. But the last version is quite decent.
- atwebb 14y agoI'm generally not looking for a decent way to access my data quickly. Not directed at you just EF.
- ed_blackburn 14y agoEF is a massive 'enterprise' codebase aimed predominately at SQL Server. If you don't need all the features ORMs like EF (or NH for that matter) offer (with all their associated config) then a micro-orm maybe better suited. Dapper has been very useful at my current gig and more innovation in that space the better. Okay these micro-ORMs lack fundamentals like identity maps and caching but do you always need these features? Inertia is dangerous.