D Web Services Application Potential?

[yawniek via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 09:22:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:30:50 UTC, yawniek wrote:
>> in my opinion also the REST style apis will come to an end as 
>> we can easily have
>> stateless apis these days ( 86.62%of browsers have websockets 
>> already according to http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets ).
>> The whole ghetto around maintaining state over http for a web 
>> application is nuts if you think about how native applications 
>> work.
>
> But REST is supposed to be stateless! You maintain state in the 
> client and use the server like a database/information service. 
> Most applications are better off with REST and SPDY as the main 
> transport.
>
> Websockets are of limited usefulness, and only for auxillary 
> information (e.g. pushing notifications about updates). It's 
> only a TCP connection where the server can initiate 
> communication.

sorry typo. i meant "we now can have statefull apis".
and i disagree on the limited usefulness.

do you have REST api in native apps? i don't see much reason why 
we should not develop web applications the way we develop native 
apps.