We wrote Bloglines, the first and greatest RSS reader web app, in C. And by "we" I mean Mark Fletcher did, and the people he hired like me, continued it. It wa

We wrote Bloglines, the first and greatest RSS reader web app, in C. And by "we" I mean Mark Fletcher did, and the people he hired like me, continued it. It wasn't bad. You just get used to keeping track of memory, arrays lengths and pointers like you do anything else. While I do prefer Python these days, I always enjoyed the looks of horror Java and PHP programmers greeted me with when I mentioned our language of choice for Bloglines.