sure libcurl is great but curl CLI is pretty ancient and awful and completely unnecessary to use today as any front-end can plug into libcurl and provide a much

sure libcurl is great but curl CLI is pretty ancient and awful and completely unnecessary to use today as any front-end can plug into libcurl and provide a much better experience. If you're only requesting your own APIs then you don't even need libcurl and any http 1.1 client will provide much better experience like httpie. The issue with "survivor" software is that UX cannot be refined due to legacy support and that's what's great about curl itself is that libcurl and CLI front-end are separate tools allowing for alternative modern front-ends.