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Best Alternative to Postman?
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What's not modern about curl?
It's almost 30 years old. Not to knock cURL, it's a staple for sure.
HTTPie and
xhclaim to have a more intuitive UX. If the functionality is comparable, I choose tools written in memory-safe languages by default.If being over 30 is "not modern", OK, sure, but that's a bit subjective.
The fuctionality is hardly comparable, cURL supports many protocols. As for memory safety it's trendy and modern but it hardly makes sense to rewrite such a project in a memory-safe language. It's been tried though (for some components) and the project lead's open to that.
https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-httpie.html
Httpie and xh only have a small subset of curl's functionality, and IMO the claims of more intuitive UX is dubious at best. More magical and limiting is what I would say. Httpie in particular is slow as hell, too.
Daniel has a more thorough comparison of features across different alternatives here: https://curl.se/docs/comparison-table.html