Re:Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
by jsty on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:48AM
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Very true. I probably should've caveated that I don't actually think it's a good name choice, just that I doubt it was chosen to mislead / as an attack on (lib)curl. Given my own uselessness with naming things sometimes, I tend to be forgiving!
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Like we're talking about software developers here. I think it's funny that when a Google engineer does it there's some shadowy motivation to usurp a FOSS downloader library -- like they aren't like the rest of us picking silly names for things.
"Hey, curl is a super useful tool, it would be nice if it used our new fancy network protocol"
"Yeah, what should we name it?"
"Uhh -- wait, I got it. crurl and the library could be libcrurl"
"Hilarious! It's perfect!"