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colecmac at protonmail.com colecmac at protonmail.com
Thu May 14 16:28:16 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` Hello! Welcome! It's cool to have another command line tool for the ecosystem,and Zig seems like an interesting language. I think you're the firstto make a Gemini tool with it! I've made a command line downloader[0] myself, but having a moreadvanced curl type tool would be great. [0] https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/gemget Also I see you're using wolfSSL, is it any good? I don't do much in C,but there was some chatter in IRC the other day about BearSSL[1], maybeit could be good for your project too. [1] https://bearssl.org/ makeworld ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Thursday, May 14, 2020 11:01 AM, Felix Queißner <felix at masterq32.de> wrote: > Hey all (and especially solderpunk)! > > I've found gemini yesterday and i'm excited! It's nice to see that > people try to increase the surface of the web. > > I hate a lot of stuff in the modern web, especially all that bloat, > tracking and unnecessary transmissions and i wanted to design a protocol > that doesn't allow this. Now i find that Gemini already did this and the > design is really well done! > > I started implementing a gemini CLI client [0] in Zig that will work > similar to curl to allow command line fetches of files. > > Maybe i'm even motivated enough to write a small browser with rendering > support for text/gemini... > > Happy hacking, ya'll > > - xq > > [0] https://github.com/MasterQ32/gurl >