alt Hacker NewsYour comment doesn't sound well researched or thought all the way through. REST by definition is used nowhere at all, and virtually all RESTful APIs are RPC-over-HTTP that are loosely inspired in REST.
There is virtually zero scenarios where anyone at all ever said "This thing we're using JSON for would be easier if we just used XML".
JSON was the undisputed winner of a competition that never was in a great part because of the vast improvements over DX. I remind you that JSON is the necessary and sufficient subset of JavaScript that allowed to define data, and to parse it all anyone had to do was to pipe it to a very standard and ubiquitous eval(). No tooling, no third-party module, no framework. Nothing. There is no competition at all.
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>REST by definition is used nowhere at all
There exist plenty of people actually using REST. It can reduce complexity of SPAs.
Your argument isn't researched either, if your metric is based on including sources.
You seem to be arguing that REST lost because if you look around today you will only find RPC. I agree. My point wasn't that REST won. Part of my point, though, was that REST lost and the industry has tried multiple times to bolt don't JSON RPC solutions to the same problems REST already addressed. If you would like to see some of those examples just look up Swagger, Open API, or MCP.
I agree JSON won, and I agree that it was picked based on arguments over DX. I'm not sure where you and k disagree here.