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For me, it all comes done to ideological purity vs. what works. Everything exists on that continuum. REST as defined in Roy's dissertation is pure and beautif
by fatnoah 3y ago
For me, it all comes done to ideological purity vs. what works. Everything exists on that continuum.
REST as defined in Roy's dissertation is pure and beautiful, but the work of programmatically navigating such an API adds burden for no gain in the vast majority of use cases.
- mercutio2 3y agoI’m a huge fan of (the original meaning of) REST, but… I agree with you! REST is for building cooperating standards based systems. Almost nobody these days is particularly invested in building standards to have different companies with different clients and servers interoperate anymore, everyone is focused on customer acquisition and monetization. So there’s really not much point in creating and deploying solutions aiming at this kind of interoperable standard. The folks at Fastmail are still trying to do this, more power to them, but they’re swimming upstream, I think.