Just Use Curl • Hacker News Board

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by antisthenes » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:20 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #6

> It's already on your machine, dipshit Does anyone actually enjoy this uhm style of writing?

What a weird place to try and raise moral panic.

Do you ask people "Do you actually enjoy talking like that?" every time you hear a curse word?

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by dlopes7 » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:20 PM UTC

c0balt wrote: post #14

> 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 mention saving headers, tokens, doing multiple requests using the results from the previous, etc.

This guy would say "just use bash" and ignore the average user experience.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by BowBun » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:20 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #6

> It's already on your machine, dipshit Does anyone actually enjoy this uhm style of writing?

Uhm, yes.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by vimdiesel1 » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

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Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by CaptainOfCoit » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

c-hendricks wrote: post #41

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Inversely, plenty of people use GUIs for all of those things.

Yes, I agree, and have no qualms with people who prefer GUIs. But to say that "majority of users (developers?)" prefer GUIs seems outlandish at best.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by runjake » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

c0balt wrote: post #14

> 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…

> This whole piece also reads like someone is quite angry at people

It’s a meme that originated with https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ or one like it.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by wraptile » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

Curl's UX is very dated and I wouldn't recommend it to any new user. Use many alternatives like httpie [1] or something like curlie [2] which is just an UX wrapper around the same libcurl. Httpie also has a postman-like web interface.

1 - https://httpie.io/

2 - https://rs.github.io/curlie/

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by kenforthewin » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:22 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #6

> It's already on your machine, dipshit Does anyone actually enjoy this uhm style of writing?

It's a very millennial flavor of Reddit-coded edginess that appeals mostly to other Reddit millennials.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by alt187 » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:22 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #2

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No. It's funny, and it humanizes the writer. Everything doesn't have to be tight-lipped and formally clenched for your enjoyment, Sire.

Re: Just Use Curl

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Post by kaoD » Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:23 PM UTC

runxiyu wrote: post #23

Using -X POST is often wrong as it "changes the actual method string in the HTTP request [... and] does not change behavior accordingly" (Stenberg, 2015). Although, it is correct for the article's mention of "Send POST requests"... just that typically people don't send POST requests out of the blue with no data.

I think you misinterpret the text you're quoting (but it's hard to tell since you didn't include a link).

-X POST is not wrong, it's just superfluous when using other flags like -d where the method can be inferred.

POST requests are often sent with no data (anything that is not idempotent should, unless there's another verb that could fit better).