“I could rewrite #curl”
Here's my collection of some less cheerful quotes to keep me firmly grounded. Blogged three years ago today:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20…
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“I could rewrite #curl”
Here's my collection of some less cheerful quotes to keep me firmly grounded. Blogged three years ago today:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20…
Jadi
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Idiots with no real programming experience.
But my "favorite" is still the guy who complained to you years ago after seeing the "curl" name in an error on his router or something and blamed you for his issues :D
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We highly appreciate your work, One of my programming goals is to contribute to curl someday and I follow you wherever I can. Consider me a fan :D
p.s. why I have not contributed yet? um.. I'm following the issues but never seen something that I can work on.
Kevin Boyd
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •NetworkManager
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Billy O'Neal
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •daniel:// stenberg://
in reply to Billy O'Neal • • •@malwareminigun people generally just think of curl as the command that solved their latest particular minor thing, and implementing *that* specific use case might actually be possible to do in a short time, at least if it doesn't have to work reliably, across the internet and with a stable AB/API for decades etc.
In the end, it is good that curl appears to be that simple. I want it to appear simple.
Mattias Eriksson 🦀🚵♂️
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Looking trivial is a very good review for this kind of swiss army knife. Good job on the usability.
Max
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •These comments are pure flattery.
M. Hamzah Khan
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •P4
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •half of those sound like the people simply don't understand the scope of the project and think it's just about the command line utility. So their 3-day "rewrite" will just use a http client from some language's standard library... which likely wraps libcurl.
Edit: just saw that you posted the exact same conclusion in another reply :D
Michael Boelen
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Fernando F. Mancera
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Negative12DollarBill
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Seth G
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •qassim
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Richard Levitte
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •At a computer club (Stacken) I once was a member of, when someone took "we should ...." a bit too far, someone else often responded with a "When are you done with it?"
Sometimes, that lead to things actually happening, but most of the time, it worked perfectly as a reality check.
That could be a (arguably not the gentlest) response to a claim like that.