[dragonwriter]

> The main problem with REST is that it never developed tools even on the level with what we have for GraphQL.

REST isn't really designed for the problem of implementing a single, centrally controlled API, and is basically overkill for that. Its made for a decentralized, heterogenous network of resources controlled by different parties, which can have separately evolving relationships. Like, say, the WWW.

If you have sufficient tooling around it to consume that kind of heterogenous resource network, it's trivial to apply it to a centralized service, but we don't really have the kind of client tooling for applications other than UIs that makes that nice widely available yet, and everyone wanting walled silos instead of free remixing means that REST is probably an antifeature for lots of API providers even if the tooling was 100% there.

[dmitriid]

Very eloquently put! Thank you!