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leob • Edited

Hold on, I've read your post, but more importantly I've modified and expanded my original comment - read it again :-)

The problem (as I try to explain) is not that your framework isn't good, I think it's very interesting. The problem is that your message comes across as negative, as unfairly trashing REST and GraphQL. I think that hurts your goal of getting people interesting in your solution.

I've looked at your docs and the fact that you don't have an explicit API layer but "direct object execution" is only a part of the whole thing, all of the features built around and on top of it are probably much more interesting.

People aren't interested in you telling them that they've been doing it wrong, they're interested to hear what value you can add - and looking at your docs, adding value is what you're able to do.

I'd say dump the polarizing title "Goodbye Web APIs" and the divisive message "Web APIs suck". Well as clickbait to get people to read your post the title does work, but if you'd change it to "Web APIs? Maybe there's a better way" then people might be more inclined to take you seriously.