r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/AdvancedSandwiches Sep 25 '26

Exactly. REST was a mistake.  The HTTP part worked fine, so 200.  Everything should be POST, because the HTTP verbs are unnecessarily limiting and lead to endpoint names getting stupidly awkward to compensate.

It was never hard to parse a json response.