Prisma did a lot of things right, and we have a ton of respect for the team over there! At the end of the day, building a good, idiomatic API for doing CRUD operations is a hard problem. But building an entirely new query language that fundamentally solves some underlying design flaws and usability issues with SQL is a whole other level of hard.
With EdgeQL, we conclusively solved a lot of these fundamental issues. Now, we're able to use EdgeQL as the foundation of our query builders, which is a huge advantage. We built the first version of the TypeScript QB in ~4 months) and it immediately leapfrogs all the major ORMs in power & expressiveness. But that's only possible because the hard work of designing EdgeQL was already done.
We'll be working on communicating how our query builder works and how it compares to ORMs in some of upcoming posts, stay tuned.