[pjmlp]

There are libraries and frameworks.

Note that before Java adoption push we had stuff like ATLServer, and the first version of ASP were basically COM libraries being called from VBscript/JScript.

On our case, we were calling C code from TCL scripts, using plugins like mod_tcl.

Nowadays you have stuff like Boost ASIO and Wt.

However I wouldn't plug C or C++ directly into the Internet, rather call them from managed languages, as native libraries, reducing the risk of possible exploits.

[powersurge360]

This is what I had considered to be the state of things. The phrasing on initial read suggested to me that C++ & Rust were the default now for performance critical services (with Rust being a new add) and Hack was used where it made sense but not necessarily by default anymore. I think I may have discounted Hack's role too much.