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pydryyesterday at 11:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Coz just about everyone wants to be that one guy in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining this bit of digital infrastructure, apparently?

Yeah me neither.

I think the only thing that would convince people to move away from curl at this point would be if curl had a heartbleed level vulnerability and failed to fix it quickly.


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bombcaryesterday at 12:45 PM

Curl is so important that if it had a heartbleed and didn’t patch, someone would and people’d just apply it until it was fixed in tree.

inigyouyesterday at 12:38 PM

Individuals don't but lots of companies do, so that they can threaten to rugpull it later if you don't pay them millions.