ht VS mcfly

No need to use curl, make HTTP requests great again with https://github.com/ducaale/xh

Except when you actually enjoy things being fast. For example, HTTPie easily adds 0.5-1s delay to every request because it's written in Python, especially on the first invocation. xh (https://github.com/ducaale/xh), on the other hand, starts immediately because it's written in Rust. I very much like this trend.

HTTPie is great and was a big improvement for me over cURL.

However, I ended up switching to xh[1] as it's significantly faster and I prefer its output.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

No, but unless portability is a concern or you're massively familiar with curl, you might want to consider xh. It's much more intuitive.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

xh

wget on the other hand, automatically converts the ñ to UTF-8 hex and resolves the link perfectly.

I've searched the curl manpage and couldn't find a way to solve this. Please help.

I'm having to use `xh --curl` [1] to "fix" the links before I pass them to curl.

[1] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

Very nice, you should add xh to the User-Agents though.

While not a rewrite - one recent tool for making http requests which i quite enjoy is:

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

It's basically python httpie rewritten in rust. my only gripe is that i keep forgetting that it exists - and that "xh" is for http and "xhs" is for https.

So i frequently end up with curl anyway:)

It is a custom pretrained NN with very few nodes, the full source code is here: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly/blob/master/src/network.rs

I've had a great time using McFly (https://github.com/cantino/mcfly) for going through my command history. It prioritizes showing commands that were previously run in your current directory!

I end up installing mcfly (https://github.com/cantino/mcfly) in all my shells, and it works great in fish as well.

You should try https://github.com/cantino/mcfly, it replaces the Ctrl r bind for fuzzy-search-style patter matching, that you can see all the similar commands and then select the one you want, it has been on all my machines ever since I've learnd of it

There's also McFly which does the same thing.

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

I've only used McFly and found it to be pretty great. My only complaint is the default search mode is SQL strings, so you have to use `%` for wildcards. I wish it was a more forgiving, less exact search.

Has anyone used both and could compare them?

If you like searching your Bash history with fzf, you're gonna love McFly: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly