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> It really falls over if you want independent implementations and variable infrastructures over a large scale, as is the case for most Internet / Web interacti
by jstimpfle 9y ago
> It really falls over if you want independent implementations and variable infrastructures over a large scale, as is the case for most Internet / Web interactions.
But what exactly? I can't really think of anything that would work without an interface description (like a HTML form).
Let's have a few informal RPC signature conventions for example for retrieving a Web page (the equivalent to HTTP GET). It would make developers lives easier. But essentially there is no problem with replacing links with remote procedure calls.
- parasubvert 9y agoHTTP GET is one of the most formalized, optimized and tested standards in the world. Replacing that with “an informal RPC signature” would be a nightmare for developers : misunderstood semantics, little to no interoperability, poor performance, poor scalability, and on. If you think there is no problem replacing hyperlinks with RPCs, be my guest, do so on all your forthcoming projects, and see if it works. It sounds like a bad idea to me but we are both just random people on the internet.