Postman valued at 5 billon? WTF? I mean the IT industry lives in a fart cloud honestly. I really really think everything is just a little bit overvalued, isn't it?

People should be using curl + bash. It's a universal combination available almost everywhere.

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mschuster91 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> People should be using curl + bash. It's a universal combination available almost everywhere.

They should but Bash escaping/encoding is nasty and most terminals have a hard time using the mouse to reliably edit a cURL command, especially if the last command didn't do a final "\n" output. And it gets oh so tiring when the "copy cURL" command includes about 1000 bytes worth of Cookie headers full of analytics garbage.

That's why Postman became a thing in the first place.

	▲	liendolucas 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, that's true. You can suffer a lot escaping things out, but is also a valuable lesson! Not promoting those extreme cases, but many many times a few simple curl calls can save your day.

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surgical_fire 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Personally, I replaced Postman years ago with IntelliJ's HTTP client. It is pretty good.