Twenty-five years of curl
It's worth imagining if curl was invented today...How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?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?What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?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...