Three decades of curl
summary
Curl grows from a 100‑line HTTP tool in 1996 to a 172,000‑line C library and CLI that supports 29 protocols and roughly 30 billion installations across phones, cars and two planets. libcurl ships since 2000, 279 releases and strict C89 style preserve ABI/API stability. Security relies on hundreds of CI jobs, over 200 build checks, fuzzing on Google OSS‑Fuzz, static analyzers, signed reproducible releases and extensive tests so changes land safely and binaries match source.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:38HTTP get to curl and 29 protocols
- 6:3330 billion installations
- 16:26Why curl is used everywhere
- 21:23Reliability and predictability
- 26:00Security practices and challenges
- 38:18Community growth and future
- 45:13Future of curl and transfers
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