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HATEOAS could have been the future too - many people wanted it to be. With all these standards, the successful ones need to find some magic moment to take off
by jarym 8y ago
HATEOAS could have been the future too - many people wanted it to be.
With all these standards, the successful ones need to find some magic moment to take off - like HTTP did.
Too early to tell if ActivityPub (which I like as a protocol very much) will be an HTTP or an XML.
- tbrownaw 8y agoThe reason behind HATEOAS was that REST was in practice being watered down from how it was originally envisioned, so proponents of the original vision needed a new term. I don't think that your origin story being "well we needed a way to tell all the practitioners they were consistently doing it wrong" is a good indicator of potential success.
- jarym 8y agoOk, perhaps I picked a poor example - but still, the success of a standard depends on some magic formula that isn't easy to repeat.
- nairboon 8y agoWhat happend with all these Hypermedia ideas? All these HATEOAS, Hydra, HAL, etc. projects don't appear to me as very widespread.
- jarym 8y agoWell the purists lost is my take. The vision was a fine one, just the approach that was being proposed had too many downsides to really take off.