Comment by motorest

3 days ago

> Only because we never had the tools and resources that, say, GraphQL has.

GraphQL promised to solve real-world problems.

What real world problems does HATEOAS addresses? None.

GraphQL was "promising" something because it was a thing by a single company.

HATEOAS didn't need to "promise" anything since it was just describing already existing protocols and capabilities that you can see in the links I posted.

And that's how you got POST-only GraphQL which for years has been busily reinventing half of HTTP