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And VC funding!
Oh, that's really unfortunate, I really like httpie. I wonder how long time it'll take for them to end up trying to extract as much value from each user as possible...
As long as it'll take for the investment documents to be signed.
To add another data point, I also moved on from Postman a while ago. Similarly to several commentors here I had found it to have become bloated, slow and buggy imho. In my particular use case, I found the urlencoding when using oauth1 to be pretty buggy. It would sometimes not work on certain headers it generated. My team ended up moving to Paw but that has been a bit problematic since it only supports osx, so some t…
Never heard of httpyac. Looks pretty nice. We've been using httpie, which works great, but it's missing nice-to-have stuff like graphql and oauth2, which I've had to build in myself.
It lets you write the api, test it and generate the documentation all from the same source of truth file.
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You can't win. Most features added is because someone wants them. One person's bloat is another person's long sought feature. Like a quote about Microsoft Office: A user only ever uses about 10 percent of the features. The problem is that all users use different 10 percents.
This is solved in food products by differentiation. Someone likes the no pulp orange juice so they buy that and someone else likes the stuff with pulp in it so they buy that. Why not do the same thing with software? Release 10 different flavors of Microsoft Word and let people choose the one they want.
People only use 10% of word, but this does not mean that you can partition all users in batch of "10% of features".
If you want to satisfy everyone, you have to make every possible combination of "10% of word features". Which is impossible.
So it's much easier to just combine all features in one product and try to give the user a good interface to find easily the feature they are looking for.
I have a meta question to ask, in threads like these where big products announce new features or big funding I always see commentors lamenting bloated software or it having too many features, not doing the one simple thing you want it to do, etc. To me it seems the only trajectory of developers building products is to add new features, its how we justify keeping ourselves around most of the time. So what my question…
VS Code gained its success mainly because of it's extensibility through extension
Bloatware that is a heave ugly GUI wrapper over cli tools like curl. Learn bash scripting and you will have unlimited power and speed vs this crap.
Learn bash scripting and you will hate yourself every day for having to wade through terrible language decisions made >30yrs ago while having to do everything by yourself because nobody else at your company knows Bash while also having no opportunities for advancement because nobody understands what you do and why it's important.
To add another data point, I also moved on from Postman a while ago. Similarly to several commentors here I had found it to have become bloated, slow and buggy imho. In my particular use case, I found the urlencoding when using oauth1 to be pretty buggy. It would sometimes not work on certain headers it generated. My team ended up moving to Paw but that has been a bit problematic since it only supports osx, so some t…
Thanks for sharing. Is the code for httpyac anywhere? I can only find the repo for the docs. I'm trying to check it out, but I encountered some errors when trying it add it as a global with yarn because I'm running a node version greater v14. The extension also gave me a deprecation warning about Buffer() usage.
To add another data point, I also moved on from Postman a while ago. Similarly to several commentors here I had found it to have become bloated, slow and buggy imho. In my particular use case, I found the urlencoding when using oauth1 to be pretty buggy. It would sometimes not work on certain headers it generated. My team ended up moving to Paw but that has been a bit problematic since it only supports osx, so some t…
I often have unsaved state because I’m testing a specific case that I don’t want to save
Not disappointed !