This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    I love it that the page is designed to advertise multiple pieces of software but stopped at curl ^^

    https://justuse.org/

    More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.

    ffmpeg is definitely also a candidate for this.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The only point I can say is that editing text on the terminal isn’t as simple as a regular text field. And AFAIK the only way to write a query on a regular text editor would be to write it, save to file, run file…

  • silasmariner@programming.dev
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    15 days ago

    ... -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'? No. Why would you do that when you can just do ... --json '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'. Yeah curl is awesome.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      If you’re trying to say that curl isn’t he best option for my mom, you’re totally right.

      For developers, on he other hand…

      • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I believe they are just pointing out a more concise cli option. No value judgment included as far as I can tell.

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The entire rant is basically: ‘Why would you use a programming language, just write binary’. I hate these kinds of arguments because they go against the most basic principles of IT.

      • tomi000@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Maybe I didnt word it well. I didnt mean thats the literal message, I was just mocking the way gatekeeping elitist programmers talk. Just because you can do everything in command line, doesnt mean you dont need a UI for anything other than games.

        Principles that Im referring to are e.g. abstraction and ‘divide and conquer’. IT exists to make things simple that would otherwise be hard (to put it simply). Why would you deliberately abstain from using an abstraction that makes API testing easier and faster?

        Not saying Postman is good btw, but there are alternatives and command line is not one I would recommend to a sane person (maybe to someone that needs a way to feel superior and brag about being a hardcore programmer).

        • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Principles that Im referring to are e.g. abstraction and ‘divide and conquer’. IT exists to make things simple that would otherwise be hard (to put it simply). Why would you deliberately abstain from using an abstraction that makes API testing easier and faster?

          We’ve gone well past that now though and are back into making pointless and unnecessary complications to differentiate products so ‘new solutions’ can be sold managerial types.

          Adding a service that needs to authenticate adds more steps and more complication. It’s not making the task easier.

  • pticrix@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    If you like having a postman like interface, I’ve been using Bruno, which is a local, de-enshittified clone of postman.

    I’ve never thought about just using curl, but when I’ll finally migrate for good out of windows to Linux, I will try doing just that, see how that feels.