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Re:Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects? by lawnchair_larry on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:00PM (#12983709)
C is usually the wrong choice for non-web apps too.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects? by shakna on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:58AM (#12987146)
Why?

With GCC's ability to deploy to just about every architecture, most heavy-handed libraries using C themselves (hence a C FFI in higher languages), and access to the biggest and best GUI libs.

Add in musl and static compilation, you get:

* Probably fast

* Native UIs

* Tiny binaries that are easy to distribute

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