there is also Bruno and Bru seems quite similar this: https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-lang/overview
It is targeted toward more postman crowd though. May not be as lightweight.
It is targeted toward more postman crowd though. May not be as lightweight.
Rest Client has a few cons though, like request chaining.
I was using Rest Client and was very happy with it, but once I needed Rest Client to use my computer's NO_PROXY env variable to avoid using the proxy for a certain url, and I found it was not possible to do that with Rest Client. That's the only reason I had to look for an alternative tool. After an analysis, I liked Bruno and Hurl. I didn't try hurl yet.