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Yeah, never understood the charm of it either. My favorite is Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno), one can even commit i

Yeah, never understood the charm of it either. My favorite is Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno), one can even commit its text-based files to version control. Insomnia is probably better but had a major fiasco last year - https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

matrix87 2y ago
hmm looks like they forked the pre-enshittified version of insomnia https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
- ashishb 2y ago
  What you linked to seems to be in archive and read-only mode already.
yunohn 2y ago
Bruno didn’t exist until ~2yrs ago and was created as a reactionary alternative to Postman’s changes. What did you use before that?
- ashishb 2y ago
  I used curl before that. But I can see how curl will be intimidating for non-engineers. Now, I recommend Bruno to even non-engineers.
  - yunohn 2y ago
    Notwithstanding your judgment of others’ ability to use curl - I wouldn’t compare API clients to curl at all. Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
    - ashishb 2y ago
      > Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more. For all engineers - detailed customization of the request/response - Python scripts - syntax highlighting - bat - pretty printing - jq - automated load and behavior testing - several specialized tools
      - yunohn 2y ago
        This feels like a worse version of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
        matrix87 2y ago
        well played I guess but a side question, how did you find that comment? is there a listing of historic hn comments somewhere?
        ashishb 2y ago
        The comparison to Dropbox is incorrect. But rather than trying to explain that, I will wait a few years and let the market decide whether my concerns are legitimate.

matrix87 2y ago

hmm looks like they forked the pre-enshittified version of insomnia https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

ashishb 2y ago
What you linked to seems to be in archive and read-only mode already.

yunohn 2y ago

Bruno didn’t exist until ~2yrs ago and was created as a reactionary alternative to Postman’s changes. What did you use before that?

ashishb 2y ago
I used curl before that. But I can see how curl will be intimidating for non-engineers. Now, I recommend Bruno to even non-engineers.
- yunohn 2y ago
  Notwithstanding your judgment of others’ ability to use curl - I wouldn’t compare API clients to curl at all. Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more.
  - ashishb 2y ago
    > Clients like Postman/Bruno provide private/shared request libraries, detailed customization of the request/response, automated load and behavior testing, syntax highlighting and formatting, pretty printing and so much more. For all engineers - detailed customization of the request/response - Python scripts - syntax highlighting - bat - pretty printing - jq - automated load and behavior testing - several specialized tools
    - yunohn 2y ago
      This feels like a worse version of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
      - matrix87 2y ago
        well played I guess but a side question, how did you find that comment? is there a listing of historic hn comments somewhere?
      - ashishb 2y ago
        The comparison to Dropbox is incorrect. But rather than trying to explain that, I will wait a few years and let the market decide whether my concerns are legitimate.