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The JetBrains IDEs have a similar feature (text based REST client). It’s got a ways to go but has also come a long way, you can see from the patterns in release notes it’s a focus for JetBrains. I can’t wait for it to mature. For this purpose, text configs >>> a GUI like Postman. IMHO even more so when tightly integrated with the IDE/debugger/etc.

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I’ve been meaning to start using JetBrains http files as integration tests with their recent free-as-in-beer jar [1]. There was also an open-source Go implementation floating around that I can’t find.

[1]: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-...

JetBrains - good mention, it's a move in the right direction. I too am eager to see this space mature.

I am strongly in favor of text config + lightweight GUI in multiple editors/IDEs; that's the underlying idea with Lama2. Just as in the document markup space, there is room for multiple solutions with slightly different application areas here as well.

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