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Re:Ask HN: Is it time for a REST specification? by tomc1985 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:15PM (#14814984)
Why the need for so much formalism with REST?

You GET or POST data, parse a response. Details are somewhat immaterial since they're mostly just values for variables. I'd definitely love to see some standard format for documentation but a world where REST nazis tell me my API lacks lazyass engineer feature X (edit: within the context of a private API) would suck.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it time for a REST specification? by throwaway000021 on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:52AM (#14819229)
I agree.... the API should hopefully be consistent, and this is more important still for APIs consumed by third parties, but for your internal projects - just get the damn thing to work.

Perfect REST API's are a total waste of time when building stuff for internal consumption.

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