HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
"for humans" seems to have no better meaning than "for the OS X sensibility".<p>In other words: this is a style change rather than a productivity gain. And the superiority of the style is not obvious - unless you just HATE the style of existing tools and need to be set apart.<p>Most humans don't operate the command line or write scripts to begin with. Those who do, usually can handle wget "<a href="http://foo/bar" rel="nofollow">http://foo/bar</a>. It took me all of a few seconds to start using wget and all of 10 minutes to have access to fancier features. (But the truth is that a certain level of complexity really just wants a script rather than ad hoc commands).<p>So here is a new tool, and it looks nice. But it doesn't at all relieve me from having to learn syntax and conventions - I still have to go to a doc/manpage and read that same kind of technical prose. So the only effective difference is that now I am using different punctuation, like @filename and -b. But the use of this "@" character is not really consistent with anything else.<p>So the tool is fine and I am sure people will use it but the competitive advantage is incredibly thin and the project smacks of NIH.<p>If curl and wget are not for humans then what are they for? People who do not have that magical design sensibility. Lame code-monkeys without vision, who are not creative and different. Soulless agents of the man.<p>This emphasis on branding over substance irks me quite a bit.