Erwin Hoogzaad
daniel:// stenberg://git used curl before curl used git 💚
thedoctor
Nils
Marc Haber@bagder Curl has always been around. Why is anybody still using wget? curl is superior in so many ways!
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@Zugschlus @bagder I, of course, use curl, but still miss wget default behavior (download the file and save it with probably the right filename, `-O` in curl). That is 95% of the time what I want to happen, I basically never want to see the response.
Andreas`wcurl`, `curl`-wrapper that comes bundled with `curl` since 8.14, does that
https://curl.se/wcurl/manual.html
zyxhere💭
@ePD5qRxX I used to have an alias, but in recent years I have just trained myself to type it out. I'll maybe try to train my fingers to use wcurl, but habits don't change quickly.
Beat Bolli 
Joshix@Zugschlus @bagder with wget I don't have to remember adding -L when downloading stuff
Alexander Bochmann@Zugschlus wget -nd muscle memory...
I also sometimes use lynx when neither manages to follow the redirects, at least with the options I'm aware of (like Sourceforge downloads).
Nemo Thorx@Zugschlus @bagder (in commandline context) I tend to use curl when I want the response to stdout for chaining to something else, and wget when I want the response saved to a file. Those differing defaults make a difference. wget will also set the local mtime to match the last-modified header which I appreciate. Plus recursive trawling I use it for.
Otoh, with curl I was able to write a basic imap folder statistics script, and other weird shenanigans.
They're different tools. Lots of overlap, but enough differences that I use both and regularly
Rome0
Äm Är Tee Koo@bagder But what git used before git? 🤔
Andrew Wippler@bagder I think everyone has used curl before git.
Rishav
Aho