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I don't think Daniel "marketed" curl? I couldn't say when curl was released without looking it up, but I know it's been around for at least a couple of decades
by bityard 2y ago
I don't think Daniel "marketed" curl?
I couldn't say when curl was released without looking it up, but I know it's been around for at least a couple of decades. There were not many command-line tools for dealing with web stuff, and curl got picked up by most Linux distributions, the BSDs, and various embedded things because it was the only tool that did what it did, as well as it did. And then it became famous essentially for being ubiquitous, like bash or vim.
"Marketing" seems to have had very little (if anything at all) to do with it.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoBest-in-class vs First-in-class (not that I have any criticisms of curl). Sometimes just being first is all it takes to win.
- alisonatwork 2y agoI am pretty sure wget existed before curl, insofar as I remember people back in the day talking about curl being a newer/better version of wget. From my limited usage it didn't seem like a better version because I had to remember a bunch of switches to get it to just download the file which wget already did out of the box, but somehow it became the industry standard anyway, perhaps because of the more permissive license. I don't have any particular complaints with it either, although I still always forget the switches I need to do to make it download a file instead of print a bunch of stuff to stdout. Oh well.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoThey overlap but wget focuses on downloading by default, while curl is more general purpose. Once I found httpie I didn’t really use either anymore, however.
- TZubiri 2y agoAnd being consistent too.
- jeanlucas 2y agoI call that "last man standing" strategy, works really well in mature SaaS markets as well.