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Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years
While the initial work was sponsored by ISRG and seemed promising at first, the Hyper support has remained experimental for several years and with little demand the code is now being removed. Curl lead developer Daniel Stenberg wrote a blog post today outlining the reasoning for dropping the Hyper back-end. With no expectation of seeing this work completed in the short to medium length term, the cost of keeping the hyper code is simply deemed too high.
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