Show HN: Hosting my website using my own C web server

Re:Show HN: Hosting my website using my own C web server by the_gorilla on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:58PM (#41650741)

C is one of the worst designed programming languages still in use. It's a ridiculous, cruel joke on anyone looking to learn unless your actual goal is to learn what a programming language designed 70s computers looks like.

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Re:Show HN: Hosting my website using my own C web server by zppln on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:09PM (#41651352)

Retarded take. Learning C lets you read and interop with the code base most of the world runs on. If nothing else it will enable you to do your next RIIR project.

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Re:Show HN: Hosting my website using my own C web server by tuveson on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:47PM (#41651143)

I think C is a simple well-designed systems language. It has some warts, but many of the things people complain about are matters of preference – or due to a lack of understanding of the problems that C is good at solving.

The only major challengers to C in the last 50 years are C++ and Rust. I think that’s a testament to the quality of the language.

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