I doubt SOAP is cool enough to attract the go/rust/etc... crowd. So back in SOAP's infancy, company firewalls were a fucking mess, so being able to use somethi

I doubt SOAP is cool enough to attract the go/rust/etc... crowd. So back in SOAP's infancy, company firewalls were a fucking mess, so being able to use something that was likely to just work across myriad internal networks was a boon. I'm a suspicious man, and am willing to bet the whole "we're transportation agnostic" was more a smoke screen for "we need to drill holes in your firewall" than a particular architectural love for passing SOAP messages over SMTP.