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Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by adql » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 11:45 AM UTC

mgaunard wrote: post #6

NiekvdMaas wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how many of those have >10 billion installs? https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/15/curl-installations-pe...

it was simply developed at the right time to become the de-facto command-line utility. But it should be a solved problem by now. No need for continuous full-time work.

Yes. By curl.

Every time comments like yours come up I'm just thinking "yeah, the fucker have no idea how much handling of edge cases comes up with libs like that"

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by petepete » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

I immediately recognised the Cambridge Audio subwoofer under the desk. I had the same set on my PC from about 1998-1999 along with an Aureal Vortex. I loved that setup.

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjgzWDEwMjQ=/z/djQAAOSwtgNeUSYW/$...

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by haunter » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 11:58 AM UTC

> I have thought about a HDMI/keyboard switch to allow me more easily switch between my different spare computers into the left “backup screen” to make it a lesser hassle to alter between those machines, but I haven’t yet decided nor found a product that would be suitable.

Personally I love the Level 1 KVMs but they only do DisplayPort now.

https://store.level1techs.com/search?q=kvm

I have this 2 monitor 2 PC one https://store.level1techs.com/products/14-kvm-switch-dual-mo...

Still the KVM market is “all over the space” both in available configs and actual build quality too.

It would be extremely niche but an open source modular KVM is a dream of mine.

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by augustl » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 11:58 AM UTC

mgaunard wrote: post #2

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What is the better http client? I thought most HTTP clients piggybacked on libcurl :)

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by daneel_w » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:01 PM UTC

But where's your Commodore 64, Bagder? We know it's hiding somewhere.

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by markphip » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:03 PM UTC

mgaunard wrote: post #2

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I think you are all overlooking the prevalence of libcurl

While the curl CLI is ubiquitous in our world, libcurl is embedded and used all over the place. Given that it has always been well maintained and enhanced I do not see a lot of reason to create alternatives or for someone to look to replace it.

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by bombolo » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:04 PM UTC

augustl wrote: post #14

mgaunard wrote: post #2

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What is the better http client? I thought most HTTP clients piggybacked on libcurl :)

I once saw him at a conference and he said curl even has an option to emit the C code to call libcurl and do the curl request you did.

I wish I had known this before.

However I mostly use wget from shell, and since I mostly work with python aiohttp/standard library/just writing the request on the socket.

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by cinntaile » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:06 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #8

mgaunard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it was simply developed at the right time to become the de-facto command-line utility. But it should be a solved problem by now. No need for continuous full-time work.

> No need for continuous full-time work. Probably not full-time, but some software are never done

"I work for wolfSSL doing commercial curl support. If you need help to fix curl problems, fix your app's use of libcurl, add features to curl, fix curl bugs, optimize your curl use or libcurl education for your developers... Then I'm your man. Contact us!"

From his website. They wouldn't give him a full-time position if there wasn't enough to do.

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by moremetadata » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:07 PM UTC

NiekvdMaas wrote: post #4

mgaunard wrote: post #2

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And how many of those have >10 billion installs? https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/15/curl-installations-pe...

I'm going to ask a really silly question, how do open source maintainers make a living, compared to the commercial MS Windows world?

Re: Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Post by mgaunard » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 12:10 PM UTC

adql wrote: post #11

mgaunard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it was simply developed at the right time to become the de-facto command-line utility. But it should be a solved problem by now. No need for continuous full-time work.

Yes. By curl. Every time comments like yours come up I'm just thinking "yeah, the fucker have no idea how much handling of edge cases comes up with libs like that"

I have implemented many networking applications from Ethernet to application protocols. I am also particularly aware of how HTTP and all the related stack works.

So your thinking appears to be inaccurate.