RE: https://hachyderm.io/@isntitvacant/117588007590928085
Fun, and true, fact, I once sat down with the inventor of GraphQL and after 30 minutes of him trying to explain the technical merits he finally came out with it: “GraphQL exists so Facebook frontend devs don’t have to talk to Facebook backend devs”.
@jcoglan I’ve long referred to graphql as “a technology designed to avoid a conversation”
@janl I inherited an API Gateway built in GraphQL because a bunch of engineers wanted to use it in one context and it was dogshit in all other contexts. I spent a year trying to get customers to use it and answering "could you just do this with REST?"