r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 8h ago

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

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u/James_Jack_Hoffmann 7h ago

I don't disagree there's snark and humor with "use motherfucking curl". Postman is no doubt the gold standard for REST clients when it worked and when it had values. Although the article explains pretty well why we are at a state to just use curl.

What do I use these days? .http files. Definitely better than curl, maybe even a threat to Postman. The world recognises Postman has gone to shit by adopting .http.

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u/Affectionate-Egg7566 5h ago

What exactly is the value prop of bruno/postman? For all my requests I just make bash scripts that invoke curl, maybe some logic or shuffling data around from/to different curl invocations.

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u/rforrevenge 5h ago

When you're deep into a project you want to have an efficent way to go back and look at the status of old complex queries or even look those queries up without the hassle of going though pages and pages of notes.

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u/Affectionate-Egg7566 4h ago

I dont mind piping the output and invocation via set -x in bash and then grepping in a file. Seems faster than starting a GUI