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by Rusky 3368 days ago
> Just try and re-write some parts of curl in Rust

I don't doubt that some suggestions have come from backseat drivers... but I also don't believe that's relevant. First, people are implementing curl's functionality in Rust (e.g. hyper, reqwest) and it's working out well. Second, you don't have to be the one implementing something to push for improvements- in the general case, that's absurd.

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> ... people are implementing curl's functionality in Rust (e.g. hyper, reqwest) and it's working out well

That is good, and it's the reasonable thing to do. New tools provide the same functionality, get used where curl would have been used otherwise, and when the time is right, curl can enjoy a well-earned retirement in the hall of fame of famous ancient projects.