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by jamessb 2494 days ago
It seems the user created this because they thought that Postman required too many resources as an Electron app.

I'm not sure why they didn't just use a commandline tool (e.g. httpie [1]) that would work with any API, rather than just those with permissive CORS headers.

[1]: https://httpie.org/
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batoure 2494 days ago
So Postman used to be a lightweight Chrome plugin. Then its developers turned it into an electron app with lots and lots and lots of features. They did this as a vehicle to begin offering paid features and enterprise plans.

To your second point, despite years of writing Curl some times its nice to have an interface and for some people that is their personal preference.

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jannes 2494 days ago
Another reason why they moved to Electron may be that Google announced [0] in 2016 that they will discontinue Chrome Apps (outside of Chrome OS).

[0]: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...

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