> There are no frameworks for doing common high productivity tasks in C, only low level system operations, or > vastly complicated frameworks with terrible apis (>_> GTK). > I'll just whip up a C REST service that talks to mysql and point nginx at it. Um... yeah. I'm sure there's > an easy way to do that. ...perhaps...?

Search for libfcgi. It's nice and simple C library that can be used behind nginx and as the matter of fact anything that supports fcgi. In this case routes are defined on nginx. But just think a bit, it's nice little framework ;-)

Btw used exactly that few months ago.