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by munk-a 909 days ago
Well, if we're being truthful, none of us use REST. We're all just cherry-picking the parts of it that work for our organizations... and that's absolutely fine. The programtic discoverability portion of REST always struck me as pretty poorly thought-out anyways.
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You use REST every day. HTML is REST. Yes, with HATEOAS.
Well, not all of REST - the discoverability portion isn't supported by pretty much anyone (because, IMO, it's just not useful).
I think you missed the point. You 100% use it every day. You’re using it on this website right now. Your web browser shows you what actions you’re able to take against the HN api. Neat, huh?