Hey thanks for your perspective and a couple of mentions of software I'd not heard of (like tcpclient).
I agree that curl is pretty big and bloated. I would not call it a deficiency that Links et al. don't depend on it.
I mostly just was thinking that since I already have curl on my system, it'd be nice to have a browser that reuses that code. Especially since curl has upstream support for the much smaller BearSSL rather than depending on OpenSSL/LibreSSL.
I agree that curl is pretty big and bloated. I would not call it a deficiency that Links et al. don't depend on it.
I mostly just was thinking that since I already have curl on my system, it'd be nice to have a browser that reuses that code. Especially since curl has upstream support for the much smaller BearSSL rather than depending on OpenSSL/LibreSSL.