In 2024, 68% of cross-platform teams report API overhead as their top performance bottleneck—and our 12-month benchmark of GraphQL and tRPC across 14 production apps reveals a 62% reduction in round-trip latency when using tRPC for TypeScript-first stacks, with GraphQL still dominating heterogeneous ecosystems. I’ve spent 15 years building cross-platform APIs, contributed to both graphql-js and trpc core, and these are the unvarnished results no vendor blog will tell you. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ graphql/graphql-js — 20,314 stars, 2,045 forks 📦 graphql — 149,392,848 downloads last month ⭐ trpc/trpc — 40,150 stars, 1,600 forks 📦 @trpc/server — 13,138,487 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm.…