We did the same. We created bespoke web sites entirely in C. One of which you may have visited (years ago). And we used C for the same reasons the author mentio

We did the same. We created bespoke web sites entirely in C. One of which you may have visited (years ago). And we used C for the same reasons the author mentions and agree with his last paragraph. Why? At the beginning we were frustrated trying to find one true solution--granted, the perfect solution--to what we wanted to do and how we wanted to work for 20 years. We found that C interfaced with everything, worked everywhere, every programmer knew it, and it could do anything we wanted it to do. If there wasn't a library for something, we could easily make our own. I could go on and on but I won't. I closed shop just a few years ago cause my reasons for doing that work went away.