HTTPie

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with HTTPie, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Documentation is only on the web, with no man pages for command-line use2024-08-24
Installing via pip is painful; the same install keeps breaking after OS upgrades2019-12-01
Invents unconventional, unintuitive syntax despite being advertised as user-friendly2019-12-01
Tool invents unconventional, unintuitive mini language for crafting HTTP requests2019-12-01
Minor syntax changes silently switch methods and content types, surprising users2019-12-01
Argument order differs from curl, making it hard to switch between them2016-08-13
Forgets to specify a flag to get formatted output when redirecting2015-10-20