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by Aperocky 1335 days ago
> - Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary

Couldn't understand why this isn't the default.

curl is always available and slapping a display layer on top of something like curl shouldn't need to talk to some backend server.

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>curl is always available

curl is not installed by default in many distros

Also, I don't think it's possible to call external processes from within the browser sandbox

> curl is not installed by default in many distros

Which ones (apart from alpine)? I thought curl was pretty much as basic as it got and is always there.

I just installed Ubuntu using deboostrap and it did not come with curl (to my surprise)
debian
On the top of the concept, not curl itself.

If curl can run locally, so should all of these tools.