[indubitably]

Perhaps it's nitpicking, but what benefit is it to not make the GraphQL language be valid JSON?

[bpicolo]

A JSON dsl would be significantly more verbose to support the feature set. GraphQL is super straightforward.

[joshribakoff]

There is a json (technically object) to graphql converter up on npm I use to dynamically create queries. I use it sparingly due to verbosity https://github.com/kadirahq/graphqlify

[patelpankaj]

valid point, but are you talking about the schema or the results. For Schema, it makes sense to have a different DSL as JSON's cons include the inability to describe types on values.

Just with 3 types (string, number, boolean), we can not cover more advanced types.

[jaredcnance]

Just going to put this here: http://jsonapi.org/