I was going to title this post "GETting Frustrated" but that inflicted psychic damage on me so I didn't
I've been playing around with adding an update checker to notify of new releases to the Astralathe launcher. No auto-updater, mind you, just a thing that checks the GitLab API and says "Hey there's a new version!!". Then I realised that making web requests in C/C++ sucks.
Really bad.