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EQL is surely a great alternative to Graphql because of namespaced keywords and rich data structure (in contrast of Graphql's string base). It is also inspired
by myguidingstar 7y ago
EQL is surely a great alternative to Graphql because of namespaced keywords and rich data structure (in contrast of Graphql's string base). It is also inspired by Datomic's Pull API. However, it's a specification and the most popular imlementation (Pathom) has nothing to do with Datalog.
- ptttr 7y agoThe original question made this mistake probably because the poster didn't know it but Pathom is the actual alternative to GraphQL-based APIs. Datalog solves a subtly different problem of querying the data, while Pathom/GraphQL/REST is about exposing the data (interfacing?) as API. It's more like: Pathom vs GraphQL-based API (vs REST) and Datalog vs SQL (vs NoSQL) The mainstream is in the process of migrating from REST to GraphQL, but I think Pathom could be the black horse in this race. Just watch the last part of Wilker Silva's The Maximal Graph talk to see the potential: https://youtu.be/IS3i3DTUnAI?t=2080 https://youtu.be/IS3i3DTUnAI?t=2080