Hum, I beg to differ. I write small utilities with web frontends that run on my PC's local apache using CGI. A couple of devs from my team and I are the only pe

Hum, I beg to differ. I write small utilities with web frontends that run on my PC's local apache using CGI. A couple of devs from my team and I are the only persons susceptible to run them, and it's plenty fast enough. Even for a web-facing tool, as long as it doesn't receive more than a couple requests per second CGI is good enough, and that probably represents most web apps in existence. YAGNI principle applies, too. Most people don't work at Google of Facebook or hyper-scaling startups. A fantastic number of real-world development consists in building boring web front-ends for in-house use of random companies; and 99% of accounting forms or support tickets won't require huge performance, even running with CGI.