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> "Don't know your use case, but C++ for a REST api seems extreme overkill" It used to be the other way around: spinning up a VM for handling a simple HTTP req
by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Don't know your use case, but C++ for a REST api seems extreme overkill"
It used to be the other way around: spinning up a VM for handling a simple HTTP request, wasting many megabytes of storage, memory and burning needless CPU cycles on bloated abstractions along the way? That used to be the very definition of "overkill".