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[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago

While HTML is hypertext markup language, hypertext is not HTML.

Hypertext doesn’t imply a specific encoding strategy, it implies semantics - data contains links to related data. If you want to encode it in protobufs - you do you, REST explicitly calls for freedom in this regard.

To paraphrase yourself, ranting about HTML as if it was a requirement for REST is ridiculous and misses the point entirely.

PS: HTML is not a protocol.