Very good post. I generally (heck even wholeheartedly) agree with most of what is being said, however I'll take some small issue with a couple of things. Whil

Very good post. I generally (heck even wholeheartedly) agree with most of what is being said, however I'll take some small issue with a couple of things. While the comments about .NET and Java are more than fair, things are starting to improve (albeit slowly). The new WCF REST bits that are up on Codeplex and are actively being developed by Glenn Block and his team look quite promising. I've also been working with a nascent .NET framework called Nancy (http://github.com/thecodejunkie/Nancy http://github.com/thecodejunkie/Nancy), which is extremely lightweight, very extensible and inspired by Sinatra's syntax. Second, I'll agree that in general right now implementing proper Hypermedia support seems like more pain than gain. However, my experience so far is already indicating places where having hypermedia support would make things easier on me in terms of client development. The challenge is finding a convenient and reasonably DRY way to build in hypermedia support into my API. So while I don't care that my API isn't fully REST, I still think there is value to be gained in exploring the 'harder' things like hypermedia.