Comment by masklinn
2 days ago
> Fielding won the war
It’s a bit odd to say fielding “won the war” when for years he had a blog pointing out all the APIs doing RPC over HTTP and calling it REST.
He formalised a concept and gave it a snappy name, and then the concept got left behind and the name stolen away from the purpose he created it for.
If that’s what you call victory, I guess Marx can rest easy.
> He formalised a concept and gave it a snappy name, and then the concept got left behind and the name stolen away from the purpose he created it for.
I'm not sure the "name was stolen" or the zealot concept actually never got any traction in production environments due to all the problems it creates.
> I'm not sure the "name was stolen" or the zealot concept actually never got any traction in production environments due to all the problems it creates.
That is a false dichotomy. Fielding gave a name to a specific concept / architectural style, the concept got ignored (rightly or wrongly, doesn’t matter) while the name he coined got recycled for something essentially entirely unrelated.