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I wonder what percentage of attempts to rewrite curl in modern languages end up eventually just calling code from libcurl if you trace down through their standa

I wonder what percentage of attempts to rewrite curl in modern languages end up eventually just calling code from libcurl if you trace down through their standard libraries far enough?

chris_wot 5y ago
I wonder how many attempts to rewrite curl would need to use curl to understand how the protocol works?
- Piskvorrr 5y ago
  This is quite acceptable, IMNSHO. If you're reinventing a wheel, of course you need to know why your predecessors have not used the Obvious Simple Shortcut That Intuitively Makes Sense. Was it not available back when this was written? Was it to keep compatibility with Windows XP? Or perhaps your idea really did not occur to the developers. Most time - when reimplementing stuff - is not spent coding, or even debugging, but on research.
slooonz 5y ago
What standard library uses curl for HTTP ? AFAIK, none of Go, Python or Node does.
- meepmorp 5y ago
  "PHP," he said with a shudder.
- jmcqk6 5y ago
  I'm not that familiar, but I believe php does
- jsjohnst 5y ago
  Many of the commonly used Ruby HTTP gems use libcurl under the hood.