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Side rant: Github devs, if you're listening, please give us REST API. Not everyone knows GraphQL or has the motivation to do so. The industry standard is REST for public facing APIs, including companies such as Stripe (widely considered to be the gold standard for public API design and documentation). You can use GraphQL internally.

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https://docs.github.com/en/rest

I remember having to use GraphQL to delete a Docker image that was stuck in my private repo and there was no GUI to clear it. Wasted a couple of hours trying to send a GraphQL query which would have been a 2 minute jobbie using cURL. Github's public REST API didn't have this feature.

They have a curl example in the docs

https://docs.github.com/en/packages/learn-github-packages/de...

A lot of REST APIs are just as hard to grok as GraphQL is as a whole. Companies often lack schemas and documentation, which GraphQL helps with out of the box.

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