I'm not trying to be a dick, but it's pretty hilarious that we made these two posts at the exact same time [0]. I totally get what you're saying, but I don't understand the motivation behind it. A properly designed HTTP API is what Roy Fielding was discussing in his dissertation, but he was obviously talking about HTML pages full of hyperlinks. At the end of the day, does it really matter much if the definition is only 80% correct if the majority of the population understands the basic gist of the conversation?
replyUnironically, Roy Fielding had a point.
replyIf you can build the ultimate evolvable client, then you can collapse all UI into a single client.
Basically Roy Fielding told us to build an API that can only be operated by a human like intelligence, nobody could implement that because such an intelligence did not exist (hence the switch to imperfect HTTP APIs), and now that LLMs are a thing, said human like intelligence exists. This means Roy Fielding wasn't wrong, he was 25 years too early and ironically people should be building real REST APIs in the pendantic academic sense from today on and not the "pragmatic" HTTP API.