> why SOAP is bad but JSON RPC is good probably tooling, I haven't looked into it but whatever tooling available back in those SOAP days probably had poor UX.

> why SOAP is bad but JSON RPC is good probably tooling, I haven't looked into it but whatever tooling available back in those SOAP days probably had poor UX. These days if there is a will to make either SOAP or JSON-RPC the way, the community could probably make better and more tools. Having said they both look shit to me :)). I guess if we go with the assumption that there will be tools to help with debug etc then the whole appeal of text based protocols disappears and you wonder why use such inefficient transports.