[blacksmith_tb]

Sure, if you've got muscle memory for all the flags (plus it lets you reason about all the other programs that pipe stuff to curl). I personally find myself using httpie [1] at least as much.

1: https://httpie.io/

[ratorx]

I think curlie is the middle ground and the best (IMO) in the space. A nicer CLI for interactive use and can use and output curl flags for scripting.

[jicea]

As a maintainer, I feel obligated to mention Hurl [1], a tool for testing HTTP with plain text and curl. It’s a wrapper around libcurl, in a single binary, with syntactic sugar for asserts. You can use it also like curl to give you an HTTP output.

[1] https://hurl.dev

[hassy]

I haven’t come across Hurl before. It looks cool!