I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandoning these tools because they sell out.
https://justuse.org/curl/
So much work and investigation into a tool that is a front end for something already on your system.
But how do you collaborate?
expose a backdoor endpoint on every collaborator’s device and peruse their shell history
I just wish that they wrote more articles. Their writing style is superb. Can’t argue with this though:
I feel like people who make these arguments in earnest are simply terrible at change and lack empathy. “Works for me, so I refuse to understand why it doesn’t work for me”. It’s so conservative neckbeard and offputting.
That does not really work for DX… Or collaboration. Or testing. Or documentation.
Na, that is you not reading the Frequently Asked Dumb Questions
Soooo you’re not actually arguing for cURL but for bash scripts and potentially something else.
And now you come across all the issues that come with that, like portability, the inevitable messiness of Bash (and the fact that people actually need to learn it unlike a GUI tool that uses simple JS for scripting), and you lose all the convenience of a nice UX and stuff like validation that comes with it.
In other words your argument is about as valid as people who argue that vim is the peak of IDEs and noone ever needs anything else. Which - I really hope - you realize is a bit crazy.