SOAP always seemed to mostly work then if something did fail it was an utter nightmare to work out what the problem was - WSDL really wasn't much fun to read.

Whereas when REST APIs came out (using JSON or XML) they were much easier to dive into at the command line with curl and work out how to get things started and diagnose problems when they inevitably came up.

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lolive 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I still cannot tell which one I hate the most: CSV or JSON. These really are hacks that should never have gotten the attention of the world, for data exchange.

	▲	arethuza an hour ago \| parent [-]
		At my last job (about 7 years ago) someone treated a tab delimited file as a CSV file and managed to import it into a critical system. It kind of look like it worked but then people noticed that it was actually garbage and there was no obvious way of undoing the import...