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culi on May 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

Just a couple nitpicks

* openapi was basically nonexistent when GQL came out. It certainly wasn't "the tool they were trying to replace"

* Postgres and GQL are not in any way mutually exclusive

* Today, openapi is still tiny compared to GQL. At least as measured by StackOverflow question tags:

https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=graphql,openapi,soap,m...

koito17 on May 30, 2024 [–]

Stack Overflow trends isn't really a good metric, but setting that aside, you need to sum the time series for Swagger and OpenAPI. There's still plenty of people who call OpenAPI 3.0 "Swagger". And strictly speaking, Swagger is "OpenAPI 2.0".

culi on June 5, 2024 | [–]

Good point, thanks!

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