Comment by coolhand2120

I politely pointed out that this previous submission "Stop using REST for state synchronization" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997286) was not in fact ReST at all, but just an HTTP API and I was down voted for it. You would think that programming is a safe place to be pedantic.

It's all HTTP API unless you're actually doing ReST in which case you're probably doing it wrong.

ReST and HATEOAS are great ideas until you actually stop and think about it, then you'll find that they only work as ideas in some idealized world that real HTTP clients do not exist in.