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. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
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. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
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. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Very nice, you should add xh to the User-Agents though. Source: 11 months ago
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:). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Not to discourage you from exploring and creating new projects but I had been looking for something similar for server testing and came across the xh rust project, modeled after Httpie. Source: over 1 year ago
Then I found a Rust clone: xh. It has almost the same UX. It's fast. Every invocation takes no time. Now I use it every day. It also has some subtle features like it doesn't re-order JSON keys in the response. When I do some DevOps jobs on a Linux server, I also use it because the author provides a musl version, so there is no need to worry about dependencies over newer C libraries. Source: almost 2 years ago
I use xh all the time to send ad-hoc HTTP requests when testing APIs! Source: almost 2 years ago
Is your primary differentiator to existing Rust CLI HTTP clients like https://github.com/ducaale/xh that it does not have any dependencies? - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
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