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gwbas1c ◴[17 Nov 24 19:44 UTC] No.42166517[source]▶

Important question: Why would anyone develop a web application in C? Typically web applications lean heavily on garbage collection and memory safety, because their bottlenecks are very rarely CPU/memory issues. The ROI on manually managing memory just isn't there for a typical web application.

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1. koito17 ◴[17 Nov 24 20:51 UTC] No.42167123[source]▶

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Back then, C was one of a few viable choices. The original implementation of the 2ch BBS was written in C.[0] Later revisions used Perl. Between 1998 and 2001, the site was a widely-used BBS and written in C.

[0] https://github.com/nekoruri/readcgi

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