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127 points warothia | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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. cv5005 ◴[18 Nov 24 16:11 UTC] No.42173754[source]▶
Global warming.

These days it should be considered immoral to write software that uses inefficient languages/runtimes/abstractions, we simply cannot afford to waste energy doing useless computations anymore.