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Curl: 25 years and 200 releases later

1 pointsby TXCSwealmost 4 years ago

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1vuio0pswjnm7almost 4 years ago
&quot;Kathy: Oh, one thing we didn&#x27;t really touch on, just to jump back to the Mozilla conversation. Why did you leave Mozilla?<p>Daniel: Well, two things really. First, I felt a little bit stuck as a developer. Not because it&#x27;s not a fun thing, because it&#x27;s network stuff and I&#x27;m interested in that and HTTP and everything that I enjoyed with curl for so long. But Firefox is a big thing, millions and millions of lines of code, and a very complicated... hundreds of threads and objects and C++. And it&#x27;s actually a very, very heavy ship to bring forward and to do changes in. And it&#x27;s a complicated thing with a lot of bugs and a lot of incoming bugs all the time. It&#x27;s actually, I think over time, a pretty stressful situation where it&#x27;s really hard to do things, bug fixes or bug reports arrive faster than you&#x27;re able to fix them.<p>And also we had a really hard time for a while there when our development team was decreased significantly. So I jumped ship and I quit before I knew what I wanted to do or how I was going to do it. So I just... I better get rid of this and figure out what I want to do instead.&quot;<p>&quot;[M]illions and millions of lines of code, and a very complicated... hundreds of threads and objects and C++. ... [I]t&#x27;s a complicated thing and a lot of incoming bugs all the time. ... it&#x27;s really hard to do things, bug fixes or bug reports arrive faster than you&#x27;re able to fix them&quot;<p>There is nothing sensible about &quot;modern&quot; web browsers.