Comment by jkbr

I don’t know when you last tested the start-up time, but we significantly improved it in HTTPie CLI 3.0 [0]. Now it’s still slower by ~0.1s.

    $ time http --version
    3.2.2

    real 0m0.113s
    user 0m0.087s
    sys 0m0.020s



    $ time xh --version
    xh 0.18.0
    -native-tls +rustls

    real 0m0.007s
    user 0m0.002s
    sys 0m0.002s

[0] https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.0.0#speed-ups