I think what's really beautiful about Unirest is that its enough of an abstraction that you don't need to think too much about what's going on under the hood an

I think what's really beautiful about Unirest is that its enough of an abstraction that you don't need to think too much about what's going on under the hood and can just "speak" fluent HTTP but not too much of an abstraction so it can be used to build specialized, per-API, clients. In the case of .NET for example, the built in facilities for HTTP communication are (in my opinion) too low on the abstraction scale so this solves an actual problem and makes the code much more expressive (and, dare I say, beautiful) (Disclosure: I'm the author of the .NET version)