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tilne05/15/20251 replyview on HN

No. To be clear: I wasn’t trying to say it was bad. Just repeating what I had read in a (fairly old) .net book. Should have chosen my words more carefully.


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neonsunset05/15/2025

To be fair, old Entity Framework was on the heavier side. Still much faster than e.g. ActiveRecord but enough for Dapper to be made back then. The gap between them is mostly gone nowadays plus .NET itself has become massively faster and alternate more efficient alternatives got introduced since (Dapper AOT, its main goal is NAOT compatibility but it also uses the opportunity to further streamline the implementation).

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