dropping hyper
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The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper. The idea was to introduce an alternative implementation of HTTP internals that you could … Continue reading dropping hyper →

It seems quite clear that rust users use hyper but few of them want to work on making it work for a C project like curl, and among existing curl users there is virtually no interest in hyper. The overlap in the Venn diagram of the two universes is not big enough.

  • commanderEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I generally assume utilities like curl are written in C.

    curl in particular I believe stands for cURL.