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Anyone had a look at Odoo yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.odoo.com/

Just got this recommended to me by a friend, seems like a really great platform for smaller businesses. Has anyone heard of them before, or tried them out?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Venting again. The thing that pisses me off the most is how odoo refuses to adopt common practice and instead implements their own stuff:

Need an ORM? Well don’t expect odoo to use a battle tested and widely used library. Odoo implements its own, but good luck figuring out how to optimize a query.
Want a framework like React? Nope, we’ve got Owl — but only sometimes.
Want templates? Odoo uses its own XML dialect. That’s not really documented. Oh and XML is also the configuration language. Oh and about 40% of your codebase will be xml files with magic strings that at runtime magically call a python function. Because fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Oh and about 40% of your codebase will be xml files with magic strings that at runtime magically call a python function. Because fuck you.

Hahaha... This is pretty much spot on about the whole back end

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Daaaamn. I'm out. Thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Welp, defo good insights you're sharing - thanks 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I hate that kind of not-invented-here syndrome. The project I am helping develop is partly open source and has its own server-side framework, its own ORM and its own typescript based framework. Community-wise we are dead in the water, because nobody wants to adopt to the own frameworks.

Incidentially, I used OpenERP5, which is an early predecessor of Odoo. I hated the interface with every fiber of my being. Due to some custom development, we were not able to upgrade to more modern versions.