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All the competing tools are not "for humans." Who are they for, then? If you don't see the negativity in that sales pitch (and your own complaining about other people's creations, which were also the products of hard work) then I don't think you are being honest with yourself.

If this tool actually didn't require me to go to a man page and read lots of flags (.... exactly like every other tool) then I might be more enthusiastic about its advantages. But I don't see advantages. I just see yet another tool. Well, that's fine... use what you want. But I don't agree that it is superior in any clear way, and that's really all I said.

People who are really capable can handle and learn from critique and don't require constant sugarcoating because their minds are more at the level of problem solving than ego defense.




curl's interface is a PITA for testing JSON APIs. HTTPie's isn't:

  http POST http://localhost:3000/person/create name="James"
The "for humans" bit signifies the author has taken care to simplify the interface for practical use, rather than for shell scripting.


Yup, I was excited to see that.

I have a text file with examples of testing different kinds of API calls w/ curl, and I have to refer to it all the time because the syntax is so easy to get wrong if I just type it out. I've also had to waste lots of time supporting other developers using our API, who got tangled up in the curl syntax in the examples I provide them.




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