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"Ugh... REST is too much work! We'll just change the meaning to suit us."

Why should people do hypermedia if it is too much work?

The Web (the prototypical REST application) had a lot of good ideas, not just hypermedia. It certainly makes sense to attribute those good ideas to REST.

> "Ugh... REST is too much work! We'll just change the meaning to suit us."

See also: Agile. DevOps.

It's pretty common once you look.

You gotta say RESTful if you want to emphasis RESTfulness. But I personally don't care. I don't mind JSON RPC.

Then say that?

Rest pedants don’t care if you don’t use rest, as long as you don’t call it rest. It’s hardly a difficult concept.

Yea, but nobody cares what REST pedants think.

True that. I use it incorrectly with non-technical folk as they may understand what a REST API is, but when I say "it's more like an RPC interface" their eyes glaze over.