Investing in Drizzle and High-Tech Swimming Goggles

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The chapter delves into the financial impacts of 10 developers working full-time on Drizzle, with a commitment to reinvesting profits for the project's future. It also highlights discussions about innovative high-tech swimming goggles and supporting fundraising efforts in Ukraine, while encouraging support for the Drizzle project.

Scott and Wes chat with Alex Blokh and Andrew Sherman, the co-founders of Drizzle ORM, about building a modern ORM from the ground up. They dive into the importance of type safety, creating filters with Drizzle, and the differences between Drizzle and other ORMs like Prisma.

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- Syntax × Drizzle Swag.
01:15 What is Drizzle?
02:36 The genesis of Drizzle.
04:15 The process of building an ORM.
05:38 ‘100% Type-Safe’ and why that’s not a great goal.
07:50 Who is responsible for writing the complicated TypeScript?
09:40 Is an ORM necessary for anyone working with data?
12:15 Creating a product that fits different complexities.
13:19 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
13:44 Creating filters in Drizzle. Callback-based, or imported. Why?
19:22 Drizzle vs Prisma vs Kysely.
22:45 Are you friendly with Prisma?
23:35 Relational queries.
25:17 Query vs select.
27:42 Maintaining so many different technologies.
30:37 Switching databases.
31:39 Drizzle Studio.
- Drizzle Studio Syntax Theme.
35:00 Accessing Cloudflare D1 SQLite requires connection through a worker.
37:40 Drizzle Kit.
41:37 Will you ever support MongoDB?
42:10 Supporting PGlite and local data storage landscape.
- DrizzleORM v0.30.6 release notes.
44:00 Being a developer in Ukraine in 2024.
- How to support Ukraine: Savelife, United24.
51:07 Drizzle is expanding.
53:50 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.