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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well SOAP is inherently evil so that just makes sense

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  • bahbah23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What happens is that engineers look at a technology and say, this is too complex, I just need something simple. So they invent and/or adopt something simpler than the popular technology of the day.

    But as they build more and more things using the technology, they realize that it needs more features, so those get added on. This happens over and over again to the technology with more and more features being added to it, until a new set of engineers look at it and say this is too complex, I just need something simple…

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’ve just described what is probably the most well-known xkcd comic in a somewhat long-winded fashion.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Slightly different though.

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  • _____@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I work with SOAP for a legacy API

    fucking kill me, I beg you

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No can do, but I can put you in an envelope, head optional.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So no head?

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