We’re using Prisma (https://prisma.io) schemas for a particular data exchange project we’re doing so that we can generate JSON schemas, SQLite schemas, PostgreSQL schemas, etc. We have even found a generator to create basic Elixir code from the Prisma schemas.

We’re not using anything else from Prisma, but if we had to implement something else in JS to talk to a database, that would be a contender for our database interface layer (there are only a couple of others that are even remotely usable, having suffered through the disaster of a Sequelize implementation). We’re more likely to use Elixir and Ecto.

Adding to the problems of generated schemas, Microsoft and Sun both had different views on how they should be generated. I bought into the promise of "build a wsdl" and you can get clients from .NET and Java. I lost all of that buy in. Hard.

I don't know that I can lay the blame on either one of them directly, mind. But the industry definitely suffered from the bad faith cooperation of those companies.

I can still read the generated JSON.