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fmo91 • today at 4:48 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

It's not very clear to me why the author has chosen C in the first place. I appreciate the effort of sharing the experience with us, anyway.


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prophittcorey • today at 5:23 PM

I didn't want to state why C and not "X" because the comments would have devolved into an all out language war.

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uecker • today at 5:02 PM

Yesterday or so there was a post about using Zig. When I read it I thought that using C would work equally well.

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Kevin_Flynn • today at 5:20 PM

I can never figure out why everything isn't in C. :|

EGreg • today at 4:53 PM

I'm old enough to remember when the OKCupid guys wrote their own webserver in C++!

I took the concept of "slots" in requests, from it: https://github.com/okws/okws