[daliwali]

There is a lot of FUD from the GraphQL side of this debate, and even overlapping goals with REST. From the article:

>With GraphQL, the client speaks a request language which decouples clients from servers. This means we can maintain and improve clients separately from servers.

This is actually how the web works right now. Browsers (clients) evolve independently from web pages (servers). Even the author of REST said it is "intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution". Standards are governed by standards bodies such as IETF, IANA, W3C, WHATWG, etc., not a single corporation like Facebook.

I think only time will tell if this is just another fad that took off but didn't age well, like SOAP.

[jmakeig]

If you control both the client and the server, there are lots of shortcuts you can take. As you say, that’s not the problem that REST was trying to solve, though.