[nchmy]

I'm a simpleton whose curl experience is things like `curl -O https://mysite.com/page.html`

So I started to write a question about what makes curl such a complex application, that requires decades of dedicated development etc

But then I just looked at the man page (https://curl.se/docs/man page.html) and it is quite apparent that it's an enormously complex and capable tool. Support for tons of protocols, certs, and much more. And, as the article says, it runs on every operating system and architecture.

Evidently, it's a eminent example of one of those forgotten yet ubiquitous xkcd dependencies upon which the rest of the software world sits.

It's an absolute disgrace that the maintainers have to essentially beg for support like this, in a world where a trillion dollars is being lit aflame to produce little of value.