On 10/2/25 03:38, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> I think OpenSSL should be focusing on fixing its performance problems rather >> than on a QUIC implementation that nobody is interested in. > > I think this is a sentiment most of everyone (outside of the OpenSSL project) > would agree with. > >> Personally, I think a Rust implementation would be better. Hopefully the >> people behind https://memorysafety.org can fund someone to work on >> stabilizing it and getting it used in distros. > > There are several QUIC stacks written in Rust [1] and one of them, quiche, we > already have (experimental) support for in curl. > > So far we have seen little demand for the Rust alternatives among (lib)curl > users. > > [1] = https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations
I think the main beneficiaries would be users of Linux distros, who would get a more memory safe stack without having to change the applications that link to curl. Those who use libcurl themselves are probably significantly less likely to care. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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