Funny article, I hope the author was not being serious. C is everything when you need performance, but having something done quick and maintainable - in C - no

Funny article, I hope the author was not being serious. C is everything when you need performance, but having something done quick and maintainable - in C - no sorry. If somebody would dare to actually create a rails or django level framework in C it would simply have no community - not because it won't be 'hip' - I'd use it - but because implementing the same app would take exponentially more time. And that's what matters in the webworld. No matter how many rps your app can serve, if there is no app you get no requests to serve...