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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by marcosdumay on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:52AM (#15584609)
About WYSIWYG, we are missing standards on our APIs. SOAP was going that way but it was way too much, way too early.

Either that, or an ASP.Net view where the backend is interacting with the user through a browser. But that doesn't work well. It's much better to standardize the backend API than the entire frontend.

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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by aphextron on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:21PM (#15589011)
>SOAP was going that way but it was way too much, way too early.

I think SOAP successfully demonstrated that rigorous "API standards" are a pipe dream. Swagger/REST is probably as good as it's going to get.

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