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four years after adding it, curl/libcurl has removed its rust backend for HTTP/1: "with no user demand, why do it?" (daniel.haxx.se)
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It seems quite clear that rust users use hyper but few of them want to work on making it work for a C project like curl, and among existing curl users there is virtually no interest in hyper. The overlap in the Venn diagram of the two universes is not big enough.

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[โ€“] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I occasionally use curl myself but never really thought about what language(s) it used in its implementation. Curious if there are power curl users to whom its internal implementation details would really matter. For me its mainly just testing my own websites and vulns there are unlikely. If I was using curl to scrape a lot of sketchy sites I might care about its memory security more.

[โ€“] commander 2 points 3 months ago

I generally assume utilities like curl are written in C.

curl in particular I believe stands for cURL.

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