THANK YOU! I totally agree that it is not unreasonable to write websites in C/C++.
I've just started looking into writing Nginx modules, which are generally written in C. Now that I've started to understand it, I can write secure content handlers in a reasonable time and reasonable effort, whilst being able to use the exhaustive libraries on offer, as well as my experience with the language. Couple this with great performance, and I can't justify writing apps in PHP anymore. We're moving more and more processing to the client , as we have realised that networks are pretty slow. Well then, how do you justify writing slow code behind the slow network?
I highly encourage the author to look at writing Nginx modules, possibly not on a hackathon, since you get security and fantastic performance for free!
I've just started looking into writing Nginx modules, which are generally written in C. Now that I've started to understand it, I can write secure content handlers in a reasonable time and reasonable effort, whilst being able to use the exhaustive libraries on offer, as well as my experience with the language. Couple this with great performance, and I can't justify writing apps in PHP anymore. We're moving more and more processing to the client , as we have realised that networks are pretty slow. Well then, how do you justify writing slow code behind the slow network?
I highly encourage the author to look at writing Nginx modules, possibly not on a hackathon, since you get security and fantastic performance for free!