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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by mrweasel on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:02AM (#49708796)
That seems like a Go problem. I don't exactly love SOAP and WSDL, but it was the default choice for Java and .Net 10 - 15 years ago in enterprise applications. Given the complexity, rewriting it a few years late, just to switch from a perfectly functional SOAP API to REST makes no sense and would mean that you either run two stack, or force every integrator to rewrite their software.

That's just no how the real world works. When this was launched Go probably wasn't a relevant language, Rust probably barely existed and the whole thing was designed for a corporate setting, where Java and .Net are the standards. All those who are asking "Why SOAP?" or suggests replacing it seems rather naive about how most corporate software is sold, designed, built and maintained, as well as expected lifetimes of solutions.

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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by justinclift on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:26AM (#49710289)
> That seems like a Go problem.

Yeah, fully agree. I was super surprised to find the SOAP support is practically non-existing too, as Go is really strong in lots of other areas. :(

That being said, SOAP's stronghold is clearly the Java ecosystem. Wonder if it's as popular in any other non-java-ecosystem based languages?

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Re:Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We ma... by marky1991 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:06PM (#49720958)
Eg Python is barely trudging along with random forks of a library that stopped being supported 10 years ago, each fork only getting maintained for about a year at a time.

I really think outside of Java and c#, soap is totally dead.

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