I think that most arguments have been discussed on Reddit and Hacker News already. But mine is a bit different.
Many people assume that it's creator's job and responsibility to rewrite curl in another language, and in his spare time. I just don't agree with this. If people want a "better", "safer" or "more stable" curl, then they're free to rewrite it in their favorite language.
I couldn't agree more. I don't doubt they could do it, but changing languages not as simple as globally replacing printf(specifier, string) with puts string.format(specifier).
I hope you will make a blog post about how proud you are to use Pascal and moving to a fancy new language would be counterproductive. Then make a submission about it here. :)
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2 u/mbenbernard 28 Mar 2017 15:37
I think that most arguments have been discussed on Reddit and Hacker News already. But mine is a bit different.
Many people assume that it's creator's job and responsibility to rewrite curl in another language, and in his spare time. I just don't agree with this. If people want a "better", "safer" or "more stable" curl, then they're free to rewrite it in their favorite language.
0 u/effusive_ermine [OP] 28 Mar 2017 16:08
I couldn't agree more. I don't doubt they could do it, but changing languages not as simple as globally replacing
printf(specifier, string)withputs string.format(specifier).1 u/hairytale 28 Mar 2017 04:04
Praise be to Ritchie and his prophet Kernigan peace be upon him.
0 u/BeniBela 29 Mar 2017 16:36
Xidel is Pascal
0 u/effusive_ermine [OP] 29 Mar 2017 17:09
I hope you will make a blog post about how proud you are to use Pascal and moving to a fancy new language would be counterproductive. Then make a submission about it here. :)