Does ReST mean anything anymore? It was originally a set of principles guiding the development of the HTTP 1.1 spec. Then it meant mapping CRUD to HTTP verbs so application-agnostic load balancers could work right. And now I guess it’s just HTTP+JSON?

[–] codemankey@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The meaning of words can change yes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-that-used-to-mean-something-different

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I understand it for normal words. But for an acronym? About a body of technical research? How are we supposed to refer to the thing that Fielding meant when he coined the term?

[–] codemankey@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Lots of technical terms are used quite loosely I think. If you ask 10 people what a compiler is, or what functional programming is or what goes where on the OSI layers you’ll get different answers.

It’s not practical but that’s the world we live in.

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