I'm starting to like graphQL so I wanna get this right :)
Is it 'graph-cue-el' or 'graph-cool'?
I hear both, what are your thoughts?
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Top comments (9)
Since 'QL' is capitalized and stands for "query language", I tend towards "graph-cue-el'.
This has been a huge discussion in RDBMS world. How to pronounce SQL?
GraphQL looks like a nice candidate for yet-another-one of these :D
It probably is graph-cue-el, but I really like graph-cool. SQL would be much fancier if it was pronounced see-cool!
I've long since stopped caring about consistency -- it's "sequel" or "ess cue ell", "day-ta" or "dah-ta" more or less at the flip of a coin. It's always "sequel server" if I'm talking about the MS product but that's it.
Wouldn't the analogous pronunciation for GraphQL be "graph-quill" rather than "graph-cool" though?
Probably it would be.
I just wanted to highlight that people will always find a way to pronounce things in many different ways and SQL was a good candidate for it. I used to care, now I don't. It's one of the endless discussions in programming world, among with tabs vs. spaces, tab size and whatever else is there.
i recently had an instructor, whose instruction i very much trust, lead us in an exercise to pronounce postgresql as post-gres-kewl (like -cool but with more of a hook, like -kyool maybe). i think graphql should be the same.
If it had an
sit beG raph's cool :)
But I just say Graph Q.L
Grap-H-Cool
Lol 😂