We're currently in the stage when we create all of our own bespoke connectors - glue code. RESTful interfaces are an attempt at solving part of the problem but

We're currently in the stage when we create all of our own bespoke connectors - glue code. RESTful interfaces are an attempt at solving part of the problem but they still require a lot of hand fiddling to make them work. While mechanical connectors have existed for millennia, standardized connectors were a set of fairly recent innovations from the industrial revolution [1], with notable standardizations like unified thread as recent as post-WWII. So they're both new and took time for all of the standardizations to settle to what we have now. And the state of mechanical connectors is not static. There is constant innovation. Consider medical, military, and other applications with special demands. Seen in that light, software is very rapidly standardizing. Like everyone else here, I feel your pain, though. [1] https://www.nord-lock.com/insights/knowledge/2017/the-history-of-the-bolt/ https://www.nord-lock.com/insights/knowledge/2017/the-histor...