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

What you linked to seems to be in archive and read-only mode already.

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

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.

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.

> 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

This feels like a worse version of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

well played I guess

but a side question, how did you find that comment? is there a listing of historic hn comments somewhere?

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.