D Web Services Application Potential?

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On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 10:39:54 UTC, yawniek wrote:
> sorry typo. i meant "we now can have statefull apis".


Ok, then I get it. ;)

> 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.

The goal should be to keep the server-side simple, robust, 
transactional and generic. Then push all the fickle 
special-casing to the client side.

Why do work on the server when you can do almost everything on 
the client, caching data in Web Storage/IndexedDB?