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Re:Exercism.io – Become a better programmer by MadcapJake on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:58PM (#9307817)
What about curl, wget, httpie?

Or how about lynx or w3m?

Plenty of people want to utilize CLIs and it's definitely beneficial when learning to program to get as much experience on a command line as possible.

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Re:Exercism.io – Become a better programmer by wongarsu on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @08:02PM (#9307838)
Yes, but what's the value in this website having a dedicated application that I either have to trust blindly or evaluate and compile?

We already have this great sandboxed environment called a browser for running untrusted code from the internet. They could still offer endpoints for curl, if it's just about using the command line.

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Re:Exercism.io – Become a better programmer by omgtehlion on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:00AM (#9311063)
Thats my question exactly. Why roll your own client when you could use curl?
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