[dventimihasura]

Why? No, seriously. Why? Have I tried to persuade people to use Hasura? No. Have I tried to persuade people that it's good or better than the competition? No. In fact, I only mentioned it in equal terms along with two other competitors, which I DON'T work for (Postgraphile and Supabase, both good products).

What I have done is present not matters of judgment, but matters of fact.

Fact: Apollo is not _the_ GraphQL company.

Fact: Apollo isn't the only one with a GraphQL client library

Fact: Apollo isn't the only path to creating a GraphQL server

As matters of fact, these are either true or false, but readers are free to evaluate which they are on their own. They shouldn't trust me, because I'm a stranger on the Internet. But then again so are you and so are most or all people here.

You say that if I don't disclose who I work for people will trust me less. That's silly, because people here shouldn't trust me at all, nor should they trust you, or anyone else, for the reasons I just gave.

In short: don't accept without careful scrutiny anything you read on the Internet, no matter who says it.

[reducesuffering]

> Apollo Server absolutely can be beat by … https://hasura.io/

> Have I tried to persuade people to use Hasura? No.

> Have I tried to persuade people that it's good or better than the competition? No.

[dventimihasura]

I consider that to be misleading selective editing. Here's a more faithful representation of that missive:

> For the back-end, Apollo Server absolutely can be beat by tools that don't require you to write any code:

> https://supabase.com/blog/pg-graphql

> https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

> https://hasura.io/

The careful reader will note that I presented three alternatives, with the one provided by my company last. Moreover, what I wrote is in fact a matter of fact. If you wish to have a GraphQL server without having to write server code to do it, as fine a product as Apollo is you cannot use Apollo to do it because that's not what Apollo does.