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by wool_gather 2078 days ago
libcurl (as opposed to the CLI) is extremely widely used according to the author (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55885729):

> At an estimated six billion installations world wide, we can safely say that curl is the most widely used internet transfer library in the world. [...] curl runs in billions of mobile phones, a billion Windows 10 installations, in a half a billion games and several hundred million TVs - and more.