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Pretty much, they are fundamentally both RPC flavors, so it's impossible for them to have different properties beyond more or less convenient tooling. It's always jarring to see those heated GraphQL vs REST APIs (as implemented in practice) vs gRPC discussions as if they are as different as, say, client-side CRDTs.



> Pretty much, they are fundamentally both RPC flavors, so it's impossible for them to have different properties beyond more or less convenient tooling.

REST arguably has better support for catching for read queries.




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