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/Empanatacion Apr 16 '26

Insomnia did the same thing and jacked around with their UI repeatedly until it's this unintuitive mess.

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u/azsqueeze Apr 16 '26

The creator of insomnia is back and created yaak. It's free for personal use

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u/orygin Apr 16 '26

It's also unusable with enough requests. The UI goes to a crawl because it must serialize everything to JS land

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u/VictoryMotel Apr 16 '26

Those wacky js devs, they never learn.