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Re: What's changing in curl 8

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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:52:24 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2022, James Fuller wrote:

> What made curl successful in the past is not necc going to be the same
> answer in the future ... for example I think considering C99 as the obvious
> next step (conservative is a good idea) to be somewhat invalid ... if we are
> to take a great leap I would rather we go straight to C17 which prepares us
> for changing to C2x. There will be problems, but I am certain they are
> tractable ... and nothing ventured ...

I'm curious (and ignorant of what these C versions offer): what exactly in
those versions do you think would help us?

I personally don't think the C version we use holds us back.

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