A language driver that supports 2.0 in an idiomatic way would be easier
than working with the plain http API, yes.

But e.g. with node it is as easy as this:
https://gist.github.com/jexp/8506572


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Brennan Kinney <
[email protected]> wrote:

> So using a language driver would be a better choice over working with just
> the REST api? If I go with NodeJS is there a preferred driver?
> node-neo4j: https://github.com/thingdom/node-neo4j (Waiting on 2.0
> support)
> seraph: https://github.com/brikteknologier/seraph (Supports 2.0)
>
>
> On Monday, 27 January 2014 02:21:05 UTC+13, Michael Hunger wrote:
>
>> They provide idiomatic access patterns for each language. Also before
>> Neo4j 2.0 many of the approaches mirrored the REST API which mirrors the
>> core Java API, both of which are not performant for over-the wire
>> operations.
>>
>> With cypher we're moving more to approaches that mirror sql based
>> approaches in each language/ecosystem, i.e. sending parametrized string
>> queries to a server and receiving (tabular) results back.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Brennan Kinney <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> As I'm new to using REST, can anyone explain what these language drivers
>>> do? If I understand right, the REST api could be used without them, so
>>> they're providing something on top of that in each language that makes it
>>> easier to work with than just working with the REST api alone?
>>>
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