This is the no-true-scotsman fallacy applied to REST. In point of fact, if REST has been around for nearly 17 years and there are so few of these APIs in the wi

This is the no-true-scotsman fallacy applied to REST. In point of fact, if REST has been around for nearly 17 years and there are so few of these APIs in the wild, then its been incredibly unsuccessful in its aims. The truth is that these sites are, in fact, RESTful and that REST is just mediocre at what it professes to do. The requirement to treat all operations as resources + HTTP verbs is the primary leaky abstraction that everyone seems to want to gloss over.