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		1st1 on Feb 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0 GraphQL is great for what it was designed for. It just was never designed to be a querying language with analytical capabilities, like EdgeQL.

spankalee on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

Forget analytics, it can't even do pagination. That really limits the benefit of being introspectable.

1st1 on Feb 11, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, true. FWIW with EdgeQL you can also introspect all aspects of your schema.

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