Author here. Wow, there is a ton of "didn't RTFA" comments here. It seems like half of this thread saw GraphQL in the title, it knocked two gears into place in their head, and they started writing up their own little essay about how bad it is.
I evaluated GraphQL twice before, and discarded it for many of the reasons brought up here. Even this time around, I give a rather lackluster review of it and mention that there are still many caveats. It's not magic, and I'm not entirely in love with it - but it's better than REST.
Query optimization, scalability, authentication, and many other issues raised here were part of the research effort and I would not have moved forward with it if I did not feel that they were adequately addressed.
Before assuming some limitation you have had with it in the past applies to sr.ht, I would recommend reading through the code:
If you're curious for a more detailed run-down of my problems with REST, Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy, I answered similar comments last night on the Lobsters thread:
I would also like to point out that the last time I thought a rewrite was in order, we got wlroots, which is now the most successful project in its class.
I evaluated GraphQL twice before, and discarded it for many of the reasons brought up here. Even this time around, I give a rather lackluster review of it and mention that there are still many caveats. It's not magic, and I'm not entirely in love with it - but it's better than REST.
Query optimization, scalability, authentication, and many other issues raised here were part of the research effort and I would not have moved forward with it if I did not feel that they were adequately addressed.
Before assuming some limitation you have had with it in the past applies to sr.ht, I would recommend reading through the code:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/tree/master/api
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gql.sr.ht
If you're curious for a more detailed run-down of my problems with REST, Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy, I answered similar comments last night on the Lobsters thread:
https://lobste.rs/s/me5emr/how_why_graphql_will_influence_so...
I would also like to point out that the last time I thought a rewrite was in order, we got wlroots, which is now the most successful project in its class.
Cheers.