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by _448 1189 days ago
Yes, I have gone back to C and C++ :) Using Wt[0], FoundationDB[1] and gRPC C++[2] for my side project. One thing to rule them all :)

[0] https://webtoolkit.eu

[1] https://www.foundationdb.org

[2] https://grpc.io
1 comments
ethicalsmacker 1189 days ago
I appreciate sticking to your guns, but I would be terrified writing anything web facing in C or C++.

Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in... maybe not so bad for APIs though.

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_448 1188 days ago
> Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in...

The front-end is jQuery and plain CSS or Bootstrap; and if JavaScript is not available then it falls back to complete server-side rendering, else it is hybrid server-client rendering.

> maybe not so bad for APIs though.

According to the creators of Wt, though you can write APIs, it is not yet architecturally optimised for REST API development.

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