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After decades it should have been obvious by now that the vast majority of users prefer GUIs.
Yeah, hence why no one uses terminals for doing work with git, codex, claude-code, neovim and curl, everyone and their mother are using desktop GUIs for those things, clearly.
There's also hurl: https://hurl.dev You define all your requests in a plaintext format and can inject variables etc... plus the name is kinda funny.
Basically a shell script with a curl invocation in it, except you need to install extra software to execute it. Misses the point of the article.
It doesn't need to render a fucking Chromium instance to make a web request. It doesn't depend on a service to run. It doesn't require an "Enterprise" subscription for basic features.
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To a degree, I understand when people do it when speaking. It can easily be a bad habit, it can slip, it can be your age and the influences around you. When it comes to doing it in a written blog post that you hope other people will read? Boggles the the mind.
I've been using curl, like forever. I don't understand the preoccupation for using postman, et. al. -- why pay for something that literally requires a little bit of light RTFM?
Plain text file?
After decades it should have been obvious by now that the vast majority of users prefer GUIs.
people needing/using curl would have been a very distinct subset of users.
Does anyone have tips for how to make it more useful? Maybe I could grep better for options? For example in the link, the author lists out common curl commands like making a POST request or adding a header. If you tried to look through the manpage for this, this would take a long time.
There's another utility called tldr that does a better job of this by providing common usage examples that almost always instantly give me what I need, but its not nearly as comprehensive as man.
> The UI/UX is perfect While I like curl, this is highly subjective, some people just prefer a GUI that can guide you and/or be visually explored. This whole piece also reads like someone is quite angry at people preferring a different workflow than them. Some aspects, like shell history, are also not the magic bullet they propose here as it doesn't, e. G., cover the actual responses. Curl's ability to do almost ever…
Not to detract from you point; just to say that the author is probably not as angry as this could make them seem.
I've been using curl, like forever. I don't understand the preoccupation for using postman, et. al. -- why pay for something that literally requires a little bit of light RTFM?
I use both. It's quite convenient to have all the collections available and just send the request with a couple of clicks.
The thing with simple tools is that bootstrapping is easy and versatile.