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GraphQL - Yay or Nay?

Graham Cox on January 06, 2017

(I've just written all of this out, on my phone, on the bus to work, and then accidentally refreshed the page and lost it. So sorry if this seems a...
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Nathaniel Blackburn

I like the idea of it but the press surrounding it has been large shaming REST which i don't find to be healthy.

If there wasn't a general sense of "it's good because we say so" about the tech they release and their general desire to gain a monopoly on open source in general then i would be more accepting of them but that doesn't seem to be the case.

There seems to be a poisonous intent from Facebook to systematically replace everything with "Facebook" versions of it and i really don't like that, not one bit.