6 engineers on Hacker News describe using SOAP first-hand: 0 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I am thankful that we moved to using some form of "REST" (however you define it) as it was infinitely better than WSDL/SOAP.”
regret · production · dimitrios1 · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One vendor had an API that was pretty good but was based on SOAP and after two days of work I think I had solved”
regret · production · PaulHoule · 2022-02-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every time I've dealt with SOAP it's been magnitudes of times more confusing and frustrating than any REST endpoint I've used.”
regret · production · joshstrange · 2019-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated WSDL stack to REST (2007-8), which was an improvement, but it was fraught with a fat clients”
regret · production · matttproud · 2017-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've experienced a lot of pain trying to get working clients generated and configured from some magic WSDL”
regret · production · Roboprog · 2013-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When you're working overtime and you're working with old, boring, over-engineered technology”
mixed · production · davedx · 2011-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?