I think it's used because the author of curl is moving towards rust and doing it piecemeal. Although curl is well-tested and battle-tested, it's still written in a memory unsafe programming language, which I think was the motivation.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Well, the author of curl is the Daniel Stenberg suggesting its removal here.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hyper was the standard for Rust web servers way before it was used by curl for anything.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's probably why the curl author chose it.

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