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> Instead of making the whole REST API

Luckily, we've already made it. :)

The things people want to us WP for are totally unrelated to the things Meteor is good at.

Couldn't you build something like that on top of the REST API?

You should check out how Meteor (https://www.meteor.com/) works. It makes REST pretty much unnecessary.

But then you don't have a nice REST API to integrate with different things anymore (authoring tools. exporting tools. frontends for devices that don't like meteor. ...)

IMHO tying itself to a single front-end technology would be the totally wrong thing to do.

Meteor is not tied to any single front end technology, nor is it a front end technology. It has an optional templating system, but lots of people are using react now instead. I love meteor, but using meteor with wordpress sounds like a nightmare. I think it was probably suggested more as an alternative.

Ok, then I got that wrong. Meteor apps always seemed incredibly coupled and integrated to me, so I assumed it was one "package".

I think you meant implementing Meteor's DDP protocol and not the whole Meteor?

https://www.meteor.com/ddp