I learned REST first, then I started working somewhere with gRPC. It was a revelation. Type-safe APIs! I was sold. Now I work somewhere where we’re all-in on Gr

I learned REST first, then I started working somewhere with gRPC. It was a revelation. Type-safe APIs! I was sold. Now I work somewhere where we’re all-in on GraphQL. It’s just a massive pain for very little benefit. In many ways it’s worse than REST. It really only works well if you’re writing something meant to behave like a database. Normal backends don’t want to do this.