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REST is good mostly because of the ecosystem. You get to build responsive web apps and also non-interactive automation. You get to have all manner of proxies
by cryptonector 8y ago
REST is good mostly because of the ecosystem. You get to build responsive web apps and also non-interactive automation. You get to have all manner of proxies because the transport is very amenable to them. Lots and lots of tooling is available. It doesn't suck, really. But it's not like REST is so superior to RPC -- yeah, there's caching, but that could be built into an RPC layer as well, and the only reason it hasn't been is that HTTP won.