top | item 22806007 (no title) throwaway8291 | 5 years ago Thanks SAP for letting me feel like it's 2010, when everyone fell in love with REST (again). discuss order hn newest mrtimo|5 years ago Agree, although I feel like I never fell out of love. Honest question, why has excitement waned? Or has it? atonse|5 years ago I don't see how... what's replaced REST? Maybe other technologies have added to it (like graphql and gRPC?) rukuu001|5 years ago Excitement has waned a bit.Seen as verbose.Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks'Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST & RPC-ish things.And in the last month... 1 SOAP interface (!)
mrtimo|5 years ago Agree, although I feel like I never fell out of love. Honest question, why has excitement waned? Or has it? atonse|5 years ago I don't see how... what's replaced REST? Maybe other technologies have added to it (like graphql and gRPC?) rukuu001|5 years ago Excitement has waned a bit.Seen as verbose.Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks'Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST & RPC-ish things.And in the last month... 1 SOAP interface (!)
atonse|5 years ago I don't see how... what's replaced REST? Maybe other technologies have added to it (like graphql and gRPC?)
rukuu001|5 years ago Excitement has waned a bit.Seen as verbose.Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks'Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST & RPC-ish things.And in the last month... 1 SOAP interface (!)
mrtimo|5 years ago
atonse|5 years ago
rukuu001|5 years ago
Seen as verbose.
Also it's been used in places it shouldn't have been, so 'REST sucks'
Over the past few years, APIs I've had to use have been around a 50/50 split between REST & RPC-ish things.
And in the last month... 1 SOAP interface (!)