Incredible news. PlanetScale is hiring the Drizzle ORM core team full-time.
If you’re not sure what it is: Drizzle ORM is this TypeScript thing that lets front-enders like me write SQL—or more accurately, not write it at all—and yet everything magically works. Tables, fields, queries, inserts, joins. I use this ORM because it’s actually cool, especially for developers.
The main thing is, the team is heavily focused on performance. Just find any "Prisma vs Drizzle" articles if you’re interested.
A product that started as a small tool for work already has 33k github stars and 5 million weekly downloads on npm. Ironically, it still doesn't have a stable version 1.0. A beta was released recently, it's being actively tested and bugs are being fixed. Meanwhile, Drizzle is easily competing with Prisma, which is already on its 7th major version.
And most importantly, it’s a Ukrainian open-source product. Congrats to Andrii Sherman and the whole team on this. A long but worthy path. Lots of interesting things ahead.