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Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful by motorest on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:02AM (#44517772)
> 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.

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Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful by masklinn on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:57AM (#44519590)
> 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.

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