Is Open Data Protocol (odata) Being Widely Embraced by the Development Community? [closed]

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EDIT: In case you aren't familiar with odata, here you go.

I am trying to determine whether it is worth learning this technology or if it is something that is not going to catch on.

The premise is interesting, and as a developer of APIs it seems like a good way to offer more flexibility to the developers that consume them.

Unfortunately, I am not seeing much "buzz" regarding Open Data Protocol in the past couple of years so just trying to gauge if it has any chance of being around once I learn it.

Thanks in advance.

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Given that:

1. The two "big name" implementors, Netflix and Ebay, abandoned it a couple of years ago and excitement for OData pretty much died with their departure,
2. OData is a RESTful way of exposing a query mechanism through an abstraction layer. Such abstractions are now widely seen as leaky abstractions, which are a clear anti-pattern,

I'd suggest OData is slowly dying, if not dead already.