Twenty-five years of curl
It's worth imagining if curl was invented today...<p>How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?<p>How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?<p>The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?<p>Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?<p>The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?<p>What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?<p>How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?<p>How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?<p>Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...