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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by munk-a on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:18PM (#24055548)
Maybe? Only if the business is actually deploying the server-side to folks. Using C++ to run data-servers is a choice you can make - one that I'd be a bit wary of since if C++ has a glaring weakness it's everything having to do with strings and I/O[1] which is going to be a big component of what you're writing.

1. C++ can do these things, and can do them quite performantly - but it takes an amount of effort far exceeding doing the same thing in say, Go or Java.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by FpUser on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:00PM (#24055829)
>"C++ can do these things, and can do them quite performantly - but it takes an amount of effort far exceeding doing the same thing in say, Go or Java."

Not my observation, writing business servers in modern C++ using some libraries is a piece of cake. I do not have any problems with I/O and strings either.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by secondcoming on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:39PM (#24055689)
What string weakness?
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by munk-a on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:41PM (#24055707)
The lack of native marshalling and unmarshalling approaches outside of the style perpetuated by sputf and no support for any on-the-go string variable injection or templating without pulling in libraries.

This is a weakness that can be overcome, but it's a weakness.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by account42 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:42AM (#24058886)
> without pulling in libraries

I don't see having these things as separate libraries to be a weakness - this way they can evolve independently from the language and can be much more specialized.

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