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Harmful to whom? You don't like REST. That's cool. REST has actually been very useful.
by maxehmookau 11y ago
Harmful to whom? You don't like REST. That's cool. REST has actually been very useful.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThis is kind of a thought-terminating cliche, though. Not that a lot of "considered harmful" essays necessarily have much substance, but actually pointing out that a lot of popular software is architected in a harmful manner and reinforces negative feedback loops, antipatterns and wrong conceptual frameworks is a legitimate thing to say in general. Dismissing such criticisms with "It works for me," "If you don't like it, don't use it," or "Who cares about X? I just want my Y to work!" is annoying and by definition anathema to any technical discourse. They're vapid emotional arguments.
- cholantesh 11y agoI would rather see a discussion of how a potentially destructive mechanism could be improved, particularly one as ubiquitous as REST. But I imagine a lot of these essays are not particularly well thought out; they're just an expression of momentary frustration that the author won't hold a month or even a week after publishing.