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Comment by jrm4 | Hacker News Reader

Kinda feels like 20 years ago called and wants its argument back, like have you seen any javascript ever?

565 KB + the logic to get the big one is miniscule today by any reasonable factor.

True, though ironic that also OP is implicitly making the argument for GraphQL-like interfaces ("just specify the data that you want returned" rather than "get all the data, then process it"), which are themselves the New Hotness in some areas.

At risk of sounding pedantic, REST also allows for "just specify the data that you want returned" style APIs.

Something like:

    curl https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/api?fields=Date&order=USD&limit=1

A very fair point well-made!

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