It might be surprising to hear the co-founder of a GraphQL company say you probably don't need it. Let me explain.
  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    7·
    3 months ago

    …by someone who didn’t really deeply understand the HTTP specification, or at least couldn’t really articulate why they needed a new tool that used less…

    Thousand yard stare at SOAP

    Yo dawg, I heard you like XML over HTTP so I put XML in HTTP in your XML over HTTP.

    So many technologies doing crap that plain old HTTP already does:

    • name a resource: URL
    • discover verbs for a resource: OPTIONS
    • execute a verb: the actual request
    • define a response type: Headers
    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      2·
      3 months ago

      Thousand yard stare at SOAP

      Yo dawg, I heard you like XML over HTTP so I put XML in HTTP in your XML over HTTP.

      Made me spit my drink, laughing. Thank you. Very true.