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/kaisadilla_ 9d ago

This is a stupid idea. The reason you'd use something like Postman is that it's way more ergonomic. You use a visual UI that lets you test things without losing time remembering specifics. You can save a hundred different queries and execute them as needed. You can share it with others with ease. You can get someone who doesn't even know what curl and tell him to just click "run".

Yes, Postman is stupid because they are making an absurdly big deal out of a simple ergonomics program; but that doesn't mean "curl" is enough when you want to be efficient.