Is SubSonic dying

Question

I\'m real interested in using SubSonic, I\'ve downloaded it and I\'m enjoying it so far, but looking at the activity on github and googlegroups it doesn\'t seem to be very a

Answer 1

I must state that although there isn't a new release every 2 months as Rob stated that you may get that feeling sometimes. Although there is still action on the google group and github. If anything before christmas there were more fresh faces starting to make contributions than before (even simple ones like doco) this shows me that there may be more interest than ever, its just that people are getting on with it.

My work uses Subsonic (both 2.2 and 3.0.0.3) in most projects where we have control over it. We have around 28 .net devs and they all love it (we don't get caught up in what it can't do as its not an ORM/data access say per se.

As we only use Subsonic for low level query tool and not as a data access layer i spose we're not too closely connected to it if we need to bail on it, but we are yet to have a reason too.

My point is this: Its a really really easy to use, easy to pick up, easy to modify, light weight querytool/ORM(to a lesser extent). There are few tools out there that have all these properties and yet don't lock you into a million schools of thought on things. Because of this i don't see it dieing any time soon - its too addictive a tool to have on your bat belt.

I'm an active record fan buoy and SubSonic Rocksorz My Sockorz!

Because of this i recommend SubSonic to a lot of people and will continue to. While we don't use it on extremely large projects (more for project continuity reasons like you mentioned than because it can't do the job)