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Thank you Daniel! Let's also not forget the anonymous authors of Wget - a venerable tool that eventually lost the battle with curl
by dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
Thank you Daniel!
Let's also not forget the anonymous authors of Wget - a venerable tool that eventually lost the battle with curl
- 3pt14159 9y agololwut? I've downloaded hundreds of billions of things with wget.
- deciduously 9y agoNot to mention the two aren't even in competition.
- gcp 9y agoStraight from the GNU page: "The original author of GNU Wget is Hrvoje Nikšić."
- seuss1969 9y agoThe authors of Wget are far from anonymous. Hrvoje started with the first version, but hasn't been around for a while now. However, it's not that Wget "lost" the battle with curl. They are two different applications with different use cases. Curl is predominantly a library, while wget focuses on being a small downloader application. Only thing is, curl has far more contributors than wget. This is because of its licensing and it being a library. Not to mention the brilliant stewardship provided by Daniel. P.S. I do often contribute to Wget and may be a little biased towards it.