Is There A Future For Linq2SQL - 3/25/2010
Back in 2008 the ADO.Net team announced that moving forward new feature
development would be focused towards the Entity Framework solution and not towards
Linq2SQL. Given this kind of announcement you would expect developers to be abandoning
the use of Linq2SQL. However, 2 years later in Scott Hanselman's poll of what tools
developers are currently using Linq2Sql was
twice as popular with developers.
From personal experience the popularity of Linq2SQL and the lack of adoption
for EF is consistent. I know many who are using Linq2SQL happily, in production
applications and have yet to meet anyone who is using the Entity Framework in production.
Fact is that Linq2Sql works and works well for many users. Linq2SQL, is
still fully supported in .Net 4 so worst case scenario it may be depreciated
in some later version of .Net but that is at least a few years out, it would still
have to be supported due to the size of the userbase and by the time it is no longer
supported there will likely be different choices in the ORM field to make a fresh
decision with.
Kind of makes me wonder if the Entity Framework may become yet another vista or
if over time the adoption rate will improve.
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