testeronious@lemmy.world to Rust@programming.dev · 7 months agoCurl: Hyper, is it worth it?curl.seexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
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minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI think it’s used because the author of curl is moving towards rust and doing it piecemeal. Although curl is well-tested and battle-tested, it’s still written in a memory unsafe programming language, which I think was the motivation. Anti Commercial-AI license
minus-squaretaladarlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoWell, the author of curl is the Daniel Stenberg suggesting its removal here.
minus-squareasdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoHyper was the standard for Rust web servers way before it was used by curl for anything.
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoThat’s probably why the curl author chose it. Anti Commercial-AI license
I think it’s used because the author of curl is moving towards rust and doing it piecemeal. Although curl is well-tested and battle-tested, it’s still written in a memory unsafe programming language, which I think was the motivation.
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Well, the author of curl is the Daniel Stenberg suggesting its removal here.
Hyper was the standard for Rust web servers way before it was used by curl for anything.
That’s probably why the curl author chose it.
Anti Commercial-AI license