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Most of the modern web is built in C: Apache and NGINX. PHP, Python and Ruby; Linux and the BSDs. I see the attitude to C as analogous to PHP in the web progra
by open-source-ux 9y ago
Most of the modern web is built in C: Apache and NGINX. PHP, Python and Ruby; Linux and the BSDs.
I see the attitude to C as analogous to PHP in the web programming sphere. Everyone complains about PHP. And yet despite all the criticism to avoid PHP, the overwhelming majority of server-side web apps are written in PHP. Not Python or Ruby or Lua or some other language. Some estimates state PHP makes up 80% of server-side web code.
Why haven't these other languages displaced PHP? Because none of them can match PHPs simplicity and ease of deployment. Not Python or Ruby or Lua or any other language.
And of what of C? It's a similar scenario. Where is the fast, strongly-typed, low-memory programming language with a friendly readable syntax for low and high-level programming? Does it exist? Is Rust that language?
- Koshkin 9y ago> Everyone complains about php There is a famous quote by B. Stroustrup about this phenomenon.