Prisma ORM v6.16.0 marks a major milestone: the Rust-based query engine has been fully removed and replaced with a TypeScript implementation, now Generally Available for production use. Key benefits include ~90% bundle size reduction, faster queries, lower CPU footprint, and simpler deployments. Alongside this, the new ESM-first `prisma-client` generator is also GA, offering ESM compatibility by default, flexible runtime configuration (Node.js, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare), and generated code outside `node_modules`. Migration requires installing a driver adapter for your database (e.g., `@prisma/adapter-pg` for PostgreSQL) and updating the schema config. Benchmarks show Prisma ORM checks TypeScript types roughly 2× faster than Drizzle. The release also adds self-serve OAuth app management in Prisma Console. Both features will become the default in the upcoming v7 major release.
