Where Is My Tribe?

In my day job, I need to work with OData feeds. This is not a flamewar article on Odata vs other HTTP-based API specs, because, well, they are all terrible :) However, it is a bit of a gripe about the OData ecosystem, or it's complete lack thereof. So that's the gripe, the ecosystem sucks. At least for end user applications.

It seems dominated by Microsoft, probably because they drafted the spec. Sadly, they drafted it in 2007 when the open source and loud minority internet developer celebs were very much anti-Microsoft. That's just a wild assumption I am going to make without actually trying to figure out if it's true. Feel free to correct me, I just don't have the energy to research.

Anyways, the other, other problem is that the Microsoft Power Query product that lets you consume OData in Excel and PowerBI is FREAKING AWESOME. A seriously good product.

This is a problem because it's Windows-only. I run a mac. FML.