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leob • Edited

This is interesting, but the way you're presenting it doesn't work - the messaging is too negative, which I think pushes people AWAY from a potentially very interesting solution ... :-)

Basically, you're telling people "Web APIs suck, you've been doing it wrong, my solution is superior" ... I think psychologically that doesn't work - people will reject your stuff because they're perceiving you as unfairly trashing REST and GraphQL, meaning they'll be biased against it from the start.

So the problem is you're focusing on "your stuff is bad" rather than "my stuff is good". It works much better if your message is a positive one, rather than negative.

In other words, don't tell people "Web APIs suck", tell them that you've developed a great full-stack framework which can (potentially) vastly improve a developer's productivity. THEN you'll get them interested and they'll start listening to you.

(my first reaction when reading your article was, okay, so what is this - it's just RPC - remember CORBA, remember Enterprise JavaBeans, remember SOAP, remember Java RMI and so on? All of that was "RPC", and we moved away from it because there were problems with it ... so that gave me a serious "deja vue" feeling)

Just my 2 cents :-)