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[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 12 hours ago

That does not really work for DX... Or collaboration. Or testing. Or documentation.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Na, that is you not reading the Frequently Asked Dumb Questions

Q: What about team collaboration?

A: It's a text file. Put it in Git. You know, that thing you should be using anyway? Now your requests have version control, code review, and diffs. For free. Revolutionary, I know.

Q: But Postman has testing and automation!

A: So does cURL in a shell script with || and && and actual programming languages. You want assertions? Pipe to grep or write a 3-line Python script. Done.

[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Soooo you're not actually arguing for cURL but for bash scripts and potentially something else.

And now you come across all the issues that come with that, like portability, the inevitable messiness of Bash (and the fact that people actually need to learn it unlike a GUI tool that uses simple JS for scripting), and you lose all the convenience of a nice UX and stuff like validation that comes with it.

In other words your argument is about as valid as people who argue that vim is the peak of IDEs and noone ever needs anything else. Which - I really hope - you realize is a bit crazy.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

What is more crazy.

  1. using tools that are already on your system with zero enshitification potential.
  2. using a wrapper for 1 that has already been enshitified before and who knows when the replacement tool will go through the same thing.
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