You can have the best of both worlds by writing low-level modules in C for use within a higher level framework. For example, I've been having a great time writ

You can have the best of both worlds by writing low-level modules in C for use within a higher level framework. For example, I've been having a great time writing this music player backend in C[1], but as soon as it's solid I'm going to write a node.js addon module and then use that as the backend for my web-based audio player[2]. [1]: https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove [2]: https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin