Comparison of gloo-net and reqwest

[allan2]

reqwest and gloo-net are both HTTP request libraries with support for WebAssembly.

It would be helpful to have documentation describing when gloo-net is an appropriate choice over reqwest. I mention reqwest because of its massive popularity, sitting at 39 million downloads compared to 231 thousand downloads for gloo-net at the time of writing.

Some things I can think of:

• gloo-net is a smaller dependency, reqwest has a larger feature set
• gloo-net has json() built-in; reqwest has it behind the optional json feature
• reqwest requires creating a client to set headers; this is easier to do in gloo-net
• gloo-net supports WebSocket

Admittedly, I don't know what the intention of gloo-net is. My guess a request library suitable for use in Wasm-based web apps? Maybe some of the contributors could chime in.

Thanks for the making this project!