Command-line C-application is "simple". But if you want to give access to your centrally managed (and updated) app to anybody in the world who has browser and

Command-line C-application is "simple". But if you want to give access to your centrally managed (and updated) app to anybody in the world who has browser and internet, it gets more complicated. It gets complicated because you have to program both the client and the server and make sure it works on multiple browsers including cell-phones. So even though basic command-line C-apps are great in terms of maintainability they also typically do less than modern web-apps.