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HTTP is not obsolete, it might be outdated, but words have meaning and HTTP one of the most used protocols there is, calling it obsolete is silly.



"adj. Outmoded in design, style, or construction: an obsolete locomotive. "[0]

So yes, it's obsolete.

[0] https://www.wordnik.com/words/obsolete


You are of course choosing to ignore the first definition, which says "no longer in use"


No, I'm not. Words can have multiple definitions. One definition does not apply, but a different one does. That's how language works. Hell, most adjectives mean more than one thing, that's just English.


> One definition does not apply, but a different one does.

This is you choosing to ignore the first definition. And it's NBD.

I do understand how language works. You can choose to focus on one definition and ignore another, as is clear by this thread.


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> You're just being disingenuous to be a dick.

Yowza. No I'm just discussing a topic you emphasized. Don't take a disagreement as a personal attack.


"Pot, this is kettle. You're black."


If someone clarifies a meaning by saying "this is what I mean" and pointing to a dictionary definition, a more appropriate response might be "Oh, I didn't realise that's the way you meant it".

That's a sophisticated response. Though you might care to decide which meaning of "sophisticated" you think I'm referencing here.

(There are, in fact, words with widely varying, and even opposed, definitions. Arguing that someone means one that they clearly don't, in such a case, would be exceedingly uncharitable.)


Totally agree. You can make distributed apps that uses HTTP. The IPFS project have interesting ideas about immutable links to data.




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