D Web Services Application Potential?

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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.