libcurl is still heavily used even inside the rust community. Right now on crates.io the curl crate is sitting at about 220k downloads to Hyper's 925k. Sure,

libcurl is still heavily used even inside the rust community. Right now on crates.io the curl crate is sitting at about 220k downloads to Hyper's 925k. Sure, hyper has a lot more, but not to the level of "who uses libcurl really?"