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Aug 20, 2026 · Backend Development
Why Did the 4‑Year Rust Rewrite of curl, 95% Complete, Suddenly Get Abandoned?
The article examines curl's long‑standing C implementation, its memory‑safety vulnerabilities, a four‑year effort to replace the libcurl backend with Rust's Hyper that reached 95% completion, and the decision to drop it because maintenance costs, a fragile C‑Rust glue layer, scarce expertise, and mismatched user demand outweighed the benefits.
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