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127 points warothia | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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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. _gabe_ ◴[17 Nov 24 22:04 UTC] No.42167739[source]▶
I’m all for using C for native development (and because I find it fun to work in occasionally), but I agree with your sentiment here. Not only do you have to manage memory manually, but you also have to do a lot more work for basic string manipulation which is the vast majority of web work. I would much rather work with a language with built in support for string manipulation and well known 3rd party libraries with good ergonomics for working with JSON, which a lot of your APIs will most likely be using.