{"id":16310,"date":"2021-05-20T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:59:13","slug":"i-could-rewrite-curl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/i-could-rewrite-curl\/","title":{"rendered":"“I could rewrite curl”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are statements made seriously. For all I know, they were not ironic. If you find others to add here, please let me know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen. I’ve been young too once and I’ve probably thought<\/em> similar things myself in the past. But there’s a huge difference between thinking and saying. Quotes included here are mentioned for our collective amusement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can do it in less than a 100 lines<\/h2>\n\n\n
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\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

[source<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can do it in a three day weekend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(The yellow marking in the picture was added by me.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

[source<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No reason to be written in C<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maybe not exactly in the same category as the two ones above, but still a significant “I know this” vibe:<\/p>\n\n\n

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[source<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We sold a curl exploit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some people deliberately decides to play for the other team.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

[source<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t a big deal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s easy to say things on Twitter…<\/p>\n\n\n

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This tweet was removed by its author after I and others replied to it so I cannot link it. The name has been blurred on purpose because of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 lines of Python<\/h2>\n\n\n
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“I think you could replace 99% of the uses of Curl \u2026 with like 100 lines of Python or Rust or Go”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[source<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should just fix curl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I reported a vulnerable old curl installation being hosted by nuget, only to get this user tell me… to fix the vulnerabilities we already fixed long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discussions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hacker news<\/a>, Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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