I hope we're on our way towards that already. What you're describing sounds like what REST should be, in a perfectly implemented world. The problem is there are

I hope we're on our way towards that already. What you're describing sounds like what REST should be, in a perfectly implemented world. The problem is there are very few APIs that get it right. Github is the only one I can think of immediately - e.g https://api.github.com/repos/jcnelson/wish/events https://api.github.com/repos/jcnelson/wish/events By the way, the idea of the API as a filesystem (and the Internet as a network of filesystems) is something I've thought about a lot recently, and I'm in the process of building a shell around the idea. This includes `cat`ting URLs as if they were files, mounting endpoints as directories, and piping between services as processes... Figured I'd share due to the tangential similarity to WISH (it's even called wwwsh): https://github.com/spro/wwwsh https://github.com/spro/wwwsh