And with good reason. I work on graph data structures and have had four people suggest I check out "GraphQL" for my work. Alas it has almost nothing to do with graphs. Every time I read about it I feel that Facebook tech has jumped the shark. I'll go back to my terascale rank/select dictionaries now...

> Every time I read about it I feel that Facebook tech has jumped the shark

No, Facebook does it on purpose, just like React has nothing to do with functional reactive programming. They are talented , not idiots , they know that a catchy name is useful to promote their tech even if it is misleading.