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Back in 2021, I asked one of our devs who badly wanted GraphQL for his resume (this dev left in 6 months) to address the following issues:

- GraphQL performance issues

- GraphQL makes tasks more complex

- GraphQL schemas confuse junior devs, higher entry level

- REST cache easier

- REST if you understand what you are doing ... can do the same

- REST is better for error handling and tooling

Now in 2024, I clearly see LLMs gives much better autocomplete for REST or SDK code generated with protobuf ecosystem

There is not enough code repos based on GraphQL for LLMs to reason.

If you have like minded people who loves GraphQL, nothing can stop them but at higher and broader level it's a huge risk for dev velocity (like anything else if you dont know what you are doing)



Given that GraphQL makes much more sense for big orgs, I wouldn’t be surprised if much of that code is locked up in private repos that LLMs can’t get to.




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