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click170 on June 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gmail API

I too would like to know what the benefit of HTTPifying things is, aside from leveraging existing infrastructure.

This was the reason Google provided for not supporting Git in Google Code initially. They do support git now though.

yazaddaruvala on June 26, 2014 [–]

I think accessibility. More developers are comfortable with REST than they are with IMAP.

In fact, at least the connotations I have with IMAP/SMTP: "shit still gotta learn that before I can start". Even though it would probably not even take a couple hours to get started.

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