| ▲ | vbezhenar 5 hours ago | |
One could rewrite curl with Perl 30 years ago. Or with Java, Golang, Python, you name it. Yet it stays written with C even today. | ||
| ▲ | johncolanduoni 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If you’re trying to demonstrate something about Rust by pointing out that someone chose C over Perl, I have to wonder how much you know about the positive characteristics of C. Let alone Rust. | ||
| ▲ | avhception 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Your comment comes across disingenuous to me. Writing it in, for example, Java would have limited it to situations where you have the JVM available, which is a minuscule subset of the situations that curl is used in today, especially if we're not talking "curl, the CLI tool" but libcurl. I have a feeling you know that already and mostly want to troll people. And Golang is only 16 years old according to Wikipedia, by the way. | ||