Re:Web development in C: Crazy?
by lucian1900 on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @08:08AM
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And we shouldn't use C for anything, if it can at all be avoided, because the likelihood and aftermath of mistakes are enormous.
Then by that logic, you shouldn't use a Computer, because the likelihood and aftermath of mistakes are enormous. :) c'mon, don't be that close-minded.
Re:Web development in C: Crazy?
by ianstallings on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @09:42AM
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I disagree completely. But again, I use it daily. The performance and footprint benefits of C outweigh the negatives, which are basically summed up as - it's too much power.
Re:Web development in C: Crazy?
by lucian1900 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:07AM
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It's entirely possible to have a language that is precisely as performant as C, but significantly safer. Several exist as well.
It's too little safety.
I wouldn't use this not because of possible mistakes leaking in, but because the higher-level languages have already solved some of the problems you would have to solve yourself, such as handling unicode. There are C frameworks you could use but my point is that you would come across problems that have already been solved, and you would have to solve them again, but this time for libCello.
Now that's for production and work. To mess around on my own time? Sounds like fun to me. C is my favorite language but I use it everyday programming mobile devices so I'm probably a little unusual. Maybe a little website experiment or something. If it goes down or gets owned, rebuild time.