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by tyingq 1616 days ago
Though the majority of running web servers, load balancers, protocol proxies like php-fpm, etc, are probably written in C :)
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Yes, but they are...better built than your quick social network poll application thingy with customer's special sauce that you had 5 days to specify, develop and deploy.

C is a tremendous tool, but I don't think it's the best for customer facing web apps.

Not to mention databases.