I remember working with SOAP and WSDL. One advantage I kind of miss from that era was the static generators that would create your service classes and the stron

I remember working with SOAP and WSDL. One advantage I kind of miss from that era was the static generators that would create your service classes and the strongly typed DTOs based on the WSDL. I understand some effort has been made to replicate this (e.g. json-schema) but it isn't nearly as widely used as WSDL seemed to be. To be honest, I only kind of miss it since XML was such a major pain to deal with (any one ever had to deal with XPath or XSLT? What a nightmare those were). I recently used GraphQL on a project and it had some nice advantages. I love the idea of protocol buffers but have never had the chance to use them in anger. But if I'm honest, the boring option is JSON and it is what I would use for just about any API I had to expose nowadays.