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> Just wanted to fetch some things via http. Nothing fancy, didn't even really care about the response body, just the timings.

why not bash and curl?

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Because I wanted to do other things with the timing data.

Why would you do it in Rust if you can do it in Go? Was there some realtime constraint in making the web request?

I was prototyping something that could monitor a few api endpoints in parallel, collect timing stats using sqlite, then output a static status page, statistics and graphs.

Kind of like what smokeping does, just wanted to see what a from-scratch implementation that did just what I needed might look like.

Ended up being about 400 lines. Only dependencies were go-sqlite and go-chart.

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