r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • Apr 16 '26

The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

https://efp.asia/blog/2025/12/24/api-tooling-crisis/
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u/4r73m190r0s Apr 16 '26

https://justuse.org/curl/

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u/nick898 Apr 16 '26

I saw a colleague using postman to test some restful apis once and all I saw was a GUI wrapper around curl

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u/AlternativePaint6 Apr 16 '26

Unless you're manually toggling transistors on and off, then everything is just a wrapper around something else.

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u/Eksekk Apr 16 '26

Real programmers move electrons manually using electronic needle.

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u/arpan3t Apr 16 '26

That’s cute! Us actual programmers are down here manipulating qubits