I'm an old software dev who grew up with curl but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone new. It's extremely dated UX that takes a long time to figure all of the quirks out. You will fail thousand times over and is a http client CLI really worth days of your time learning?

Libcurl itself is brilliant but there are much better front ends for it like hurl or alternatives like httpie - use those instead.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes it is worth it, because it is available everywhere, and will still be around in 15 years. Learn it once, use it "forever", everywhere. It's the same with learning to use sed, awk, etc. They've been around for 50 years and will most likely be for another 50.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's just a http client CLI not a programming language. It's not that difficult to switch. In fact I use at least 5 different ones myself.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All the more reason to learn and use curl

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes after you learn all better clients first, sure.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which do you consider better?

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

...probably the ones they mentioned in the root comment?

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hurl looks similar to how intellij integrates their http requests feature.

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow the httpie site is terrible

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Hahahahaha you're not wrong

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[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Same here, though last time I used a nice frontend was in 2010s, it stopped being developed like all these smaller projects finally end up, and I'm back to using curl. Perhaps it's time to try again, httpie has been around for a while so maybe it's here to stay