[lmm]

Shrug, databases have been doing the same thing since the 1970s (and consider also e.g. regexes). Turns out a flexible, expressive language for writing queries isn't always the most secure or performant thing to use as your wire format.

[yawaramin]

That's the exact argument against exposing GraphQL to the frontend.

[lmm]

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885465