Granted, language is to some extent defined by usage: if enough people use a term incorrectly, and few enough people use it correctly, then the incorrect usage becomes correct and the correct incorrect. Fine, we can use ‘REST’ to mean ‘RPC over HTTP with a JSON encoding.’ But could the advocates of that usage propose a term we can all use for what Fielding described in his thesis? Potrzebie?
The thing that worries me, is if we start using ‘REST’ to mean JSON-RPC, and ‘Potrzebie’ to mean ‘the style formerly known as REST’: will people start using ‘Potrzebie’ to mean JSON-RPC? Perhaps worse, maybe they will start using it to mean ‘gRPC with JSON encoding.’
I propose that it’s best to use words and phrases for what they originally mean, for as long as one can, and to fight strenuously against changing them. Otherways wun May nyet wit was kood hap.
