A 2024-es cURL felhasználói kérdőív eredményei

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:

1. 96.4% of the users run it on Linux (*)
2. 98.6% use it for HTTPS (*)
3. 98% of Windows users run curl on x86 64 bit architecture (*)
4. 99% of the users who know, use curl with OpenSSL (*)
5. curl users run it on Android more than on FreeBSD
6. Windows 10 is the most used Windows version for curl use
7. More than 100 different command line options is a favorite for at least one
8. 83.1% rates our “security handling” 5 out of 5
9. 22.8% of users would like to see it offer recursive HTML download
10. 14.1% of users have used curl for 18 or more years

(*) = not exclusively - as these questions allowed respondents to select multiple
answers the total ends up larger than 100%.

Néhány számomra érdekes visszajelzés:

20. Which question would you like to see in this survey next year?

- on moving to free software platforms like sourcehut for infra hosting
- Distro wars: Which flavor of penguin or pufferfish are you?
- is wget better
- whether if we like potato or not
- Would I like to attend a curl conference in Australia? YES

21. Anything else you think we should know?

- Being female is not being part of a minority. Half of mankind is female.
- Codeberg and SourceHut
- curl is basically the ffmpeg of networking
- Female contributors and other minorities?????? My dog or what? Stop this woke shit!
- Add an alias for the misspelled "referer" command with the correct spelling [and correct the help manual text.]
- Fuck the haters ; keep up the good work dude.
- I would appreciate it much if you'd not use Google for the survey, maybe you could consider e.g. https://framaforms.org/ instead.

Which curl command line option do you think needs improvement and how?

- -k should be deprecated in favor of --insecure and complain loudly about being insecure
- -e, --referer` should have an additional alias that is spelled correctly. be the change you want to see in the world, and all that ;)
- I'd love to see -k be deprecated in favor of forcing the use of --insecure, simply because a lot of companies think -k means "make our SSL certificates work"
- The entire file sending stuff

What could the curl project do/change to get (more) contributions from you?

- andreas kling-style hacking videos
- Fix Australia's broken copyright system. Lol. (I cannot release copyright. You cannot release to Public Domain. I have to license it in perpetuity, which is a legal headache to get right, and most open source licenses are not nearly enough to make it work here.)
- host curl on a free and open source code forge
- Migrate to Codeberg and SourceHut. =)
- Rewrite in python? (please don't do that!)

If you miss support for something, tell us what!

- sftp speed is sloooow.