cURL User Survey 2024 Analysis
canopic jug writes:
cURL (established 1998) is one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, especially if the development library libcurl is included. As has become tradition, the founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg has published a detailed analysis of the annual cURL survey.
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 multipleanswers 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.
Previously:
(2024) The I in LLM Stands for Intelligence
(2023) "cURL", the URL Code That Can, Marks 25 Years of Transfers
(2021) Half of Curl's Security Vulnerabilities Due to C Mistakes
(2020) curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only
(2018) Daniel Stenberg, Author of cURL and libcurl, Denied US Visit Again
(2018) Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl
(2016) Your wget (and curl) is Broken and Should DIE, GitHubbers Tell Microsoft
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