2025-09-19 06:09 UTC
@emmy@transfem.social til that it stands for "representational state transfer". i've been writing restful apis for a decade without knowing this ^^;
(it also sounds synonymous with the words api/rpc tbh.. kinda redundant if you think about it, any rpc transfers a representation of state..)
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@emmy@transfem.social 2025-09-19 06:23
@ww@xyzzy.link Actually it's a lot more than just API/RPC! See the paper (?) defining it: https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm And that's my contention. Using HTTP as an RPC layer is perfectly fine. But people throw around terms they don't understand and expect other developers to conform to "standards" that don't exist. Here's another fun one: HATEOAS.