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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

cURL [curl.se] (established 1998) is one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, especially if the development library libcurl [curl.se] is included. As has become tradition, the founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg has published a detailed analysis of the annual cURL survey [daniel.haxx.se].

Ten quick things to take away

If you are in too much of a hurry to read it all, here are ten facts this year’s survey revealed:

• 96.4% of the users run it on Linux (*)
• 98.6% use it for HTTPS (*)
• 98% of Windows users run curl on x86 64 bit architecture (*)
• 99% of the users who know, use curl with OpenSSL (*)
• curl users run it on Android more than on FreeBSD
• Windows 10 is the most used Windows version for curl use
• More than 100 different command line options is a favorite for at least one
• 83.1% rates our “security handling” 5 out of 5
• 22.8% of users would like to see it offer recursive HTML download
• 14.1% of users have used curl for 18 or more years

(*) = not exclusively - as these questions allowed respondents to select multiple answers the total ends up larger than 100%

cURL and libcurl are Free and Open Source Software. cURL and libcurl are licensed under conditions similar to the MIT License [curl.se].

Previously:
(2024) The I in LLM Stands for Intelligence [soylentnews.org]
(2023) "cURL", the URL Code That Can, Marks 25 Years of Transfers [soylentnews.org]
(2021) Half of Curl's Security Vulnerabilities Due to C Mistakes [soylentnews.org]
(2020) curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only [soylentnews.org]
(2018) Daniel Stenberg, Author of cURL and libcurl, Denied US Visit Again [soylentnews.org]
(2018) Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl [soylentnews.org]
(2016) Your wget (and curl) is Broken and Should DIE, GitHubbers Tell Microsoft [soylentnews.org]

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