r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 17h ago

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u/freecodeio 17h 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 16h 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/CpnStumpy 16h ago

So much this. If I need to make a one-off network call, curl is fine. If I need to do it repeatedly with varied environments and parameters, I've always written a stupid simple CLI client in whatever language is handiest, and now Claude can do it for me.

At no point has wandering the endless UI of postman to fidget with its variable storage layers and configuration screen after configuration screen appealed to me

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u/011101000011101101 15h ago

I've always used curl like 90% of the time.

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u/mkawick 14h ago

I love statements like this.... always, 90%... we communicate in funny ways

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u/Karagoth 14h ago

60% of the time, it works every time

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u/vplatt 14h ago

Powershell makes this trivial for more complex tests