[lossolo]

It's really easy to criticize. Why don't you rewrite curl yourself? Instead of talking do something. In language that is memory safe + supports all the platforms that curl support (good luck with that) and same time is as efficient.

[fiedzia]

> It's really easy to criticize.

Yes, that's the point of this discussion. We are not criticising some code for having one bug a decade that requires 24 steps to reproduce, we are criticising code for having numerous bugs that are easily preventable with existing technology. Its way easier than it should be.

I have no personal need for rewriting curl. Instead I am using libraries written in safer language. You are misaddressing my criticism. I am not criticising curl author for using C - just some of his arguments for doing so the way he does. They are not valid in my opinion. There might be reasons for distributing code as C source, there is no reason for networking library to be written in C directly.

> In language that is memory safe + supports all the platforms that curl support

There are languages safer than C that compile to C, supporting all platform C does. No luck is needed.

[lossolo]

> There are languages safer than C that compile to C, supporting all platform C does. No luck is needed.

I think you are living in theory world, but you don't have any practice. Show me 10 examples of C code (>10KLOC) that was generated by those "safe languages" that compile to C which is safe, as time and space efficient as equivalent hand written, highly optimized C code.