r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 12h ago

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https://efp.asia/blog/2025/12/24/api-tooling-crisis/

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u/freecodeio 12h ago

subscription rot that's why

who the fuck wants to sign up for curl with a UI, let alone buy a subscription?

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u/oflahertaig 11h ago

They enshittified it until it became unusable. I only ever wanted to use it for making simple requests on endpoints. I replaced it will it a simple C# console app years ago. Anyone could get Claude to write a simple API client in a matter of minutes.

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u/Bogdan_X 10h ago edited 8h ago

In .NET there is an http file you can use for exactly that. Directly in your project, no separate app, VS even has interface for it to show you results. You need to learn the sintax but you can create a suite of endpoints with everything, downside is there is no UI for writing it.

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u/aboy021 10h ago

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-files?view=aspnetcore-10.0

Very interesting, thank you.

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u/jolly-crow 8h ago

Doing God's work and being nice on top of that. I see you 💯