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It feels like there’s 20 years of history missing between 2000 and 2019. What cool stories are hidden in those two decades? :)

> In 2019, I joined the company wolfSSL and started offering commercial curl support and could finally work on curl full-time. Something of a dream that came true.

Clearly a labor of love. Many of us understand this. It's the reason curl exist at this level.

Still... I'm happy that after ~2 decades, he's able to work on this fulltime.

Slightly off topic:

Top 100 from OSSF's most critical open source projects exported from BigQuery: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K0vu5Eu_LRQBYKVYHhYm...

Interesting bit to me is: Angular is #13 while React is #15!

I'm suprised to see Nix at #20. Is it becoming more widely adopted?

The criticality score looks like it involves not just dependents but a bunch of different kinds of activity metrics, and Nixpkgs is an extremely active repo. It's niche but there's a lot of contributors and a lot of automation, so there's a lot of frequent activity.

Start from the top:

https://un.curl.dev/

Some more discussion in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34981518

The Story of Curl