Daniel Stenberg, curl's sole full-time maintainer, highlights the challenges of maintaining this widely-used project that exists in over one billion devices. Despite its extensive usage by major companies, particularly in the automotive industry, the project receives minimal corporate support while facing increasing challenges from AI-generated false reports and DDoS attacks.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034966/

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