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Why web development in C? Seems like a headache.

• m0nastic 13y ago
  "Why server-side development in Javascript? Seems like a headache." People like to use what they like.
• eksith 13y ago
  Same reason people write things in Var'aq : http://www.reocities.com/connorbd/varaq/index.html http://www.reocities.com/connorbd/varaq/index.html The more "close to the metal" you can get and more awkward and painful it is to program in, the more cred you get. Actual ramifications of slow connections, long polling etc... be damned. Come to think of it, how come we don't have a web server in Var'aq?
• weland 13y ago
  It's quite a gift for embedded systems. It's very convenient to have a self-contained solution for a web interface, rather than drag an interpreter and a web server on an already crowded rootfs. Plus, you can get the benefit of static analysis and the like, which is extra useful on such systems.
  • drdaeman 13y ago
    I believe there are relatively many AOT-compiled-to-native-code languages other than C.
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    • pi18n 13y ago
      But have they equal tooling? That's why I'd be using C if I were using C for something; it's "portable assembly".