[ergothus]

> so was SOAP

You had me until that (j/k)(mostly)

> Is it really meaningful to go all in on learning how ....is all that fundamentally different?

That'd be the diminishing returns I mentioned up-thread: each iteration of learning a new way to do an old problem gives you less. I'd argue it's still more than 0, but we aren't comparing to zero, we're comparing to the opportunity cost.

That said, I think, as a generalization, experienced devs tend to be prematurely dismissive. That is, however, a personal opinion.

[keithnoizu]

Hey SOAP was great when the alternative was coming up with your own custom RPC protocol. At least if you were using visual studio's tooling. And nullable types didn't show up to give you a headache. XML was great when the alternative was writing your own custom serialization format. I don't miss them but, I remember their being a step forward.

* stealth edit.