• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Not sure why you’re downvoted. You’re not wrong.

    I say this as a member of my local GraphQL meetup group.

    It solves a lot of interesting problems with APIs at scale.

    But every time some hobbyist was like, “Is it worth it?” I constantly had to bite my tongue and shrug. It’s like teaching a whole new paradigm.

    And even though I think GraphQL is superior, it’s a lot to understand and most people probably won’t give AF. Fetching JSON works just fine for 99% of use cases.

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      7 months ago

      I think he’s being downvoted because he’s one of those “who needs type safety?” fools. And because of the general rambling nonsense. Yeah JSON works fine for 99% of use cases but that isn’t what he said.