Code First / Database First / Model First : are they just personnal preferences?

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Merely knowing the internal functionality of each approaches, and after reading a lot of posts, I still can't figure out if each one of them is just a matter of personnal preference for the developper or if they deserve different axes of productivity ?

Does one of them should be applyed for some specific productivity needs or MS is just beeing kind offering three different flavours ?

Should we consider CF as a sort of improvement over DBF or MF and thinking of it as a futur standard on wich spending a peculiar intelectual investment ... ?

Is there a link showing a sort of synthetic table with un-passionate pros and cons for each approach, a little bit like for web-forms and MVC.

Sorry for those who will find this question redondant. I know it is.

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