• vzq@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    This is all very “old man yells at cloud”.

    Interesting historical note, but things change.

    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org
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      29 days ago

      I’d Agree in most cases, but not in this one.

      Rigor in definitions allows us to express a lot of complex things in a compact form. this allows us to treat “Cars” as something different than “Motorcycles” while both a motorized vehicles.

      the same is true for REST-API and other API-Types, while all of them are just a means to allow services to exchange data, they tell us a lot about how this exchange happens and what to expect, but only if we use the words in a way that they represent the concept they were meant to represent. Otherwise we end up with meaningless buzz words like “rest”, “agile”, “scrum”, “artificial intelligence” and so forth, instead of meaningful terms found in the jargon of other engineering disciplines like “magnetism”, “gravity” or “motor”.