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> the reason new tools keep getting developed

That's a bad reason.

There's a solidly developed C library for dealing with HTTP, which is mature.

libcurl.

HTTP is developing, with WebSockets and the rest of the 2 spec.

C developers didn't immediately ditch what they use and fragment the ecosystem.

Curl got updated.

Python has a mature library, which is much younger than curl, called requests.

Python didn't fragment, they updated requests.

Here's where I have the biggest issue:

* Advice for C on which library to use, is probably still up to date 10 years later.

* Advice for Python on which library to use, is probably still up to date 5 years later.

* Advice for JavaScript on which library to use, is probably out of date 1 year later.




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