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by User23 1738 days ago
The best thing about SOAP is that it drove industry-wide REST adoption. That had its own problems, but at least they were largely due to a failure of implementers to understand what using HTTP as an application rather than a transport protocol meant. And now we have GraphQL, which while it has its own faults[1] is far less unnecessarily complicated than SOAP and provides considerably more value.

[1] Oh crap I’d forgotten about SOAP faults until I wrote that word. Please help me I’m having traumatic flashbacks.