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@bagder I was watching this earlier; very compelling stuff. I wonder what that Brazilian dev is up to nowadays.
@HisVirusness unfortunately he is no longer with us. He died almost ten years ago.
HISTORY: mention that Rafael passed away much too early by bagder · Pull Request #20781 · curl/curl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features - HISTORY: mention that Rafael passed away much too early by bagder · Pull Request #20781 · curl/curl

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@bagder @HisVirusness I assume he was aware how his little project turned out?

was he still contributing to curl at some point?

@skaverat @HisVirusness he knew how curl took off sure. His contributions I believe stopped maybe already in 1997