Re:“I Could Rewrite Curl”
by krick on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:16AM
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True. I'm kind of surprised (again) by Daniel after 20 years of maintaining curl being so salty about "people not appreciating the achievement". Yes, for overwhelming majority of users curl in 2021 is just a simple http/https request client. And, yes, in 2021 that could be written over a weekend with a better CLI, mainly because most of the languages already have all important stuff implemented in a [standard] library (ironically, sometimes via libcurl).
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> I'm kind of surprised (again) by Daniel after 20 years of maintaining curl being so salty about "people not appreciating the achievement"
You're surprised by him being salty? I can't imagine what it's like to be on the receiving end of the water torture of people continually belittling the work you have done over 20 years and given to the community.
Not to mention the guys who threatened to kidnap/kill him if he didn't fly like 10000km immediately, on his own expense of course, to solve their bug pro bono.
Re:“I Could Rewrite Curl”
by mumblemumble on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:06AM
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That was honestly my first thought. Of course it's easy to rewrite curl nowadays. It can't be anything more complicated than slapping a command line interface on top of libcurl...
Re:“I Could Rewrite Curl”
by justin_oaks on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:05PM
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At first I laughed... then I thought about the sheer number of command line options that you can find in the man pages. After thinking about that, even writing the command line interface would be a non-trivial undertaking.
Documentation takes work too.