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by recursivedoubts 1496 days ago
agreed, fielding specifically mentions scripting as an optional constraint in section 5.1.5 of his dissertation, "Code on Demand":

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...

and it has proven to be an incredibly flexible aspect of the web

however, I would note, currently that scripting ability is being used mainly to replace the original hypermedia model of the web (with RPC-style JSON-based applications) rather than enhance it as a hypermedia

we'll see if we can change that