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by systematical 1431 days ago
Talk about a getting lost in semantics rant. If you want to make your API "RESTful" like this person describes, there is JSON-LD. Most engineers are going to look at all the extra JSON as getting in their way. What was the point of this rant again?
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Agree.

> Today, when someone uses the term REST, they are nearly always discussing a JSON-based API using HTTP.

Yup, this is exactly what I do. So what? Maybe that's incorrect naming but most people only care about being able to easily use the API, not whether it is true REST. And not being 100% REST-spirit-compliant does not prevent from using tools like OpenAPI to document it.