slow in performance (short-lived bursty TCP connections) if it was ever used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)#Reception
Well duh. A bicycle is also overloaded and cumbersome, if it was ever used as a car.
Edit: to clarify, the whole point of the gemini web is to avoid heavy and complex site layouts. Automatic embedding and stuff just doesn’t happen there. Also doesn’t use HTML but Gemtext. So, short-lived and bursty connections, are a ideal fit.
Curl isn’t the backbone of any let alone all devices on the net. Not sure where you got that.
It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.
Being used many places doesn’t make it the backbone of those things. It’s not a SLIGHT exaggeration
potato, tomato…