I wrote the upload and download handlers for droplink.me in C as FastCGIs, anticipating performance problems. I built it; but they never really came. It was a

I wrote the upload and download handlers for droplink.me in C as FastCGIs, anticipating performance problems. I built it; but they never really came. It was a fun exercise, but if I wasn't interested in having fun with C, I would have written it in a dynamic language. I think the reason there isn't a "C web development community" is that programmers are more than willing to trade time for performance. Safe, readable code can be written in high level languages in a snap. You can see your ideas happen very quickly. If you run into performance problems (which I think is safe to say is a fairly rare occurrence for the average web developer who produces decent code, in any language), you can a) refactor or streamline what you already have or b) start fresh, lessons learned, in something lower level. An aside: the site http://halfbakery.com http://halfbakery.com is implemented entirely as an Apache module.