curl With Daniel Stenberg
06/24/22 • 71 min
The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devices around the world. For this ep we had a wide ranging conversation with Daniel Stenberg, curl's longtime author and maintainer, about starting up such an essential project back in the '90s, juggling the dizzying array of protocols curl supports, the decision-making process around one of the most critical open source programs in use today, and a bunch more.
SHOW NOTES
Find out (way) more about curl on its home page: https://curl.se/
Daniel blogs extensively on curl and other topics: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/
Daniel is also working on a memoir, available online: https://un.curl.dev/
The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devices around the world. For this ep we had a wide ranging conversation with Daniel Stenberg, curl's longtime author and maintainer, about starting up such an essential project back in the '90s, juggling the dizzying array of protocols curl supports, the decision-making process around one of the most critical open source programs in use today, and a bunch more.
SHOW NOTES
Find out (way) more about curl on its home page: https://curl.se/
Daniel blogs extensively on curl and other topics: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/
Daniel is also working on a memoir, available online: https://un.curl.dev/
The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
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