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Care to elaborate briefly on why they do?

• lmz 3y ago
  "REST" is supposed to be an architectural style reflecting the Web as used by humans. Humans don't normally manually construct URLs. They navigate based on links from an entry point. (See also: https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-components/#_self_descriptive_messages https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-components/#_self_desc... )
  • tkiolp4 3y ago
    The vast majority of people using REST do not follow its original definition, so the original definition doesn’t matter anymore. It’s like human languages: REST is whatever we make of it, regardless of what academics say.
    • Arch-TK 3y ago
      Sure. But then what words do you use to describe actual REST? This keeps happening and all it does it cause confusion. It's one thing to make up new words for new concepts so you can more easily refer to them in a conversation. It's another thing entirely to give a word a vague but similar meaning without any clear way to differentiate between the original specific and new extremely nebulous concept.
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