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C is a terrible language to write a web framework in. The kind of high-level constructs modern programming languages provide are just not possible in C. It is a

by pcx 11y ago

C is a terrible language to write a web framework in. The kind of high-level constructs modern programming languages provide are just not possible in C. It is also very easy to write buggy code and is too low level for the use case.

rwmj 11y ago
You should try looking at the code before declaring that. The C used a pool allocator, had some high level structures (vectors and hash tables, basically the same as Perl), loads of safe string functions, try/catch, coroutines, cooperative threads, and other stuff I've forgotten[1]. It was possible to write safe code in that framework, and in fact we did write a lot of code used daily by tens of thousands of UK schoolchildren until quite recently. [1] Invoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule although I like to think our code was very minimal, elegant and not too buggy.
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- pcx 11y ago
  > You should try looking at the code before declaring that. Attempting to write a web framework in C is great! Even though you end up building the high-level programming constructs, C web dev is still just too hard compared to other alternatives. Because of this it is not possible to build a large community around it, which I would say is the most crucial part of today's web framework like Django/Rails.