Comment by imtringued

>When I first encountered RESTful web services using JSON the ability to easily invoke them using curl was such a relief... (and yes, like lots of people, I went through a phase about being dogmatic about what REST actually is, HATEOAS and all the rest - but I've got over that years ago).

I'm not dogmatic about this. People don't understand what REST is. REST is some completely useless technology that absolutely nobody needs. Using the right words for things isn't dogmatism, it's being truthful. The backlash from most people comes from Fielding's superiority complex where he presents REST as superior, when it is merely different, different in ways that aren't actually useful to most people, and yet people constantly give this guy a platform by referring to his obsolete architecture, earning them the "well actually"s they deserve.