An old question but still relevant today....due to so many developers in the enterprise space still using it.
My work involves designing and developing IoT (Internet of Things) solutions. Which includes developing code for small embedded devices that communicate with the Cloud.
It is clear REST is now widely accepted and useful, and pretty much the defacto standard for the web, even Microsoft has REST support included throughout Azure. If I needed to rely on SOAP I could not do what I need to do, as is just too big, bulky and annoying for small embedded devices.
REST is simple and clean and small. Making it ideal for small embedded devices. I always scream when I am working with a web developer who sends me a WSDLs. As I will have to begin an education campaign about why this just isn't going to work and why they are going to have to learn REST.
