[bragh]

Everybody say "thank you, Microsoft!". Until PowerShell 6, curl in pwsh was an alias to Invoke-WebRequest: https://lazyadmin.nl/powershell/using-curl/

Obviously, it does not cause any confusion at all because all the Windows admins always install the latest and greatest versions of Powershell into the environments they administer.

[rdtsc]

Oh wow. I had no idea. I bet Daniel had a lot of fun fielding "curl is broken on Windows" issues.