It’s not. It’s pretty much the opposite. This is what he’s talking about:
> our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction
> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen.
> They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line.
REST is the opposite. REST is “We did this. It worked great! This is why.” And web developers around the world are using this every single day in practical projects without even realising it. The average web developer uses REST, including HATEOAS, all the time, and it works great for them. It’s just when they set out to do it on purpose, they often get distracted by some weird fake definition of REST that is completely different.
> our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction
> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen.
> They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line.
REST is the opposite. REST is “We did this. It worked great! This is why.” And web developers around the world are using this every single day in practical projects without even realising it. The average web developer uses REST, including HATEOAS, all the time, and it works great for them. It’s just when they set out to do it on purpose, they often get distracted by some weird fake definition of REST that is completely different.