someone convinced me to write a website in C++ once and i gotta say: it's not great
@Felthry (none of those are good arguments, to be clear)
@Felthry @codl I embedded a webserver inside a C++ application (using C++ open-source libraries providing the webserver). The goal was to be able to partially drive that C++ application with a UI written using Python. There was also another webserver embedded in that application (that I didn't write) whose job was to monitor various internal variables and states (and possibly to overwrite those variables), for validation and tests. Those webservers were not used for web programming though, but as external interfaces of a complex C++ application.
@Felthry i don't remember exactly what were the arguments but i think some of them were
- "it's fast"
- "I know zero python and you know some C++ so i guess we have to do C++"
- "i found a templating library and a fastcgi library for c++ so we've got our work cut out for us"
- possibly a feeling of superiority for writing in an old, compiled language instead of a hip modern interpreted one