[sherwin]

Funny you mention this -- this was almost exactly what I and a friend did for a final project last semester. we did it in Go, which was probably much more enjoyable than C :)

[luriel]

Funny you mention this, the folks at Heroku did the same: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html / https://github.com/ha/doozerd