Nothing wrong with cgi, it fills a distinct convention for interfacing a program with a web server. The real wtf is fastcgi. There is no good reason for fastcgi

Nothing wrong with cgi, it fills a distinct convention for interfacing a program with a web server. The real wtf is fastcgi. There is no good reason for fastcgi to exist, let alone be popular. it is almost like everybody got in the habit that you needed cgi to hook your program to a web server. Then, when we wanted persistent processes for efficiency, there was a collective brain fart, we forgot that http exists and went with a incompatible worse protocol on the sole basis that it has CGI in the name.