Congrats on the launch ! I'm the lead dev of Karate[1] and was wondering if you had come across it. I strongly agree with you that collaboration should be via Git and the IDE[2] and that traditional solutions fall short. I hope Karate's syntax passes your "memory friendly" test :) We get regular feedback is that it is easy to read and even non-programmers can pick it up.
One thing I feel we do really well is chaining of HTTP requests. And we have plugins for IntelliJ[3] and Visual Studio Code[4].
Maintaining a tool like this as open-source is a big effort, all the best !
Hi :) I had seen Karate mentioned in some of the docs, but didn't go into it in depth, at the time. Your solution to the chaining problem looks simple enough; I'll give it a try once I have an opportunity.
Plugins - both the extensions look great!
Thanks for your thoughtful response with context.