I like using httpie for documentation, tutorials and blog posts because I feel it is more readable. I also really like how you can skip the whole "http://localhost/" bit for local development. Just "http :9200" for elasticsearch, "http :6543" for pyramid etc.

Agreed that curl is good for things that should be copied and pasted directly or for matters of distribution because it is guaranteed to be installed everywhere.

Would also love a httpie2curl converter for those times when testing in httpie and needing to distribute the requests to places without it.