Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust

• hurl

  42 10,875 9.8 Rust

  Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

  

https://hurl.dev/docs/installation.html

> Precompiled binary is available at hurl-1.3.1-x86_64-linux.tar.gz

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/releases/download/...

> For Debian / Ubuntu, Hurl can be installed using a binary .deb file provided in each Hurl release.

> hurl-bin package for Arch Linux and derived distros.

> An installer is available at hurl-1.3.1-win64-installer.exe

Just glancing at a few files, main.rs is already over 500 lines, which means shell would be impractical. C is a very difficult language to learn and to use correctly, so in the long-term there will be more Rust (and Go, and Python) programmers than C programmers. I think that is a good reason for projects to choose other languages.

In fact, one might equally ask why it wasn't written in Python - Python is safer than C, far easier, and performance doesn't sound critical for an HTTP debugger meant to be used interactively by a human.

• dot-http

  2 155 0.0 Rust

  dot-http is a text-based scriptable HTTP client

There's also dot-http[0] which aims to provide a similar interface to what IntelliJ's requests feature has. I've used it a few times. It's a shame development has died, so hopefully Hurl can take its place.

[0] https://github.com/bayne/dot-http

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• restclient.el

  24 1,977 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Discontinued HTTP REST client tool for emacs

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