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Many developers suffer from the "curl" syndrome: they think they could\nwrite curl on a weekend. After all, how hard could it be to send a network request and print the result?\nI thought the same when I started writing a link checker called lychee in async Rust. After just one weekend (and two more short years) I got the basics to work. Follow me on my journey through the weirdness of the web and how seemingly simple things can get complex pretty quickly.\n\n\n\nHow hard could it be?\n\nThat's a question a lot of developers routinely ask when they look at a seemingly simple task like writing a "curl clone" or a word count tool. As developers, we often underestimate the amount of work it takes to build a fast, robust and correct tool from scratch, which handles all the real-world edge cases.\n\nBy sharing the trials and tribulations of my development process, I aim to shed light on the reality of software development, the importance of appreciating the work done by countless open-source developers, and the skills needed to successfully navigate the path from concept to functional tool. I will also briefly touch on the difficulties of funding such open source projects.\n\n\nabout this event: https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2867.html