[sixtyj]

Edit: I am considering to delete the following paragraph as it seems that my hands were quicker than my brain :)

I'm sorry, but it's like scratching your left ear with your right hand. But for fun, yeah, there are worse things people do. Good luck and have fun. Now here's where most of us will probably be sarcastic, but it's certainly a good way to explore whatever others consider bullshit.

Edit: Pls read the following comment. I would hire him/her because I consider this as a waste of OP skills and he/she would be useful in many more projects.

TLDR; it was not a hate. I am sorry if it sounds so.

[ashtonjamesd]

True. Also, I love the C language and I don't get joy out of writing in many other languages. Additionally, I've wanted to make something like this just to learn more about how web servers work. I appreciate your thoughts.

[sim7c00]

love this sentiment. i cant really write in other languages. i try but always C ends up the choice :'). slow going but happy going

[sixtyj]

It is not about threat. It is about that life is too short to do things that are almost nonsense. Ofc everyone of us consider “nonsense” in different way.

I wish OP good luck. It was not sarcastic, I really do, and would like to hire him/her for the skills. But for mankind, this project is almost useless… I apologize if this sounds harsh.

[ashtonjamesd]

That's fair. And I do agree. The use cases for something like this are very thin compared to what tools you can use out there instead, Django, Rails, Express, etc. All of which offer a much safer development experience. However, I still believe it will have a use case for some.

[sixtyj]

You are right. But I really think if you know C lang (all of Python or PHP people could be jealous :) - you can easily focus on something a little bit important/useful that will have impact on humanity.

You have a great potential if you can “see code” and have logical thinking deep inside. Not too many people have it.

Elon Musk said once that all those innovations are redeemed by the tremendous efforts of all the engineers. So I appreciate everyone who can do something.

[seanssel]

Oh please, get off the weird high horse. I find this comment to be “nonsense”. What projects are you working on now, for mankind?

[sixtyj]

Why are we alive? To be useful. Not happy all the kind. Everyone wants to be useful.

I am not doing anything special but I do inform our community (“mankind”) for 25 years… And I feel useful because I am good at it.

“Mankind” can be a group of other people.

Edit: What people value the most? Compliments. So if you are useful and receive compliments, you will eventually be happy. But ofc you can be happy without being useful, for sure.

[kjs3]

I am not doing anything special

Least surprising thing you've said so far.

but I do inform our community

Inform them what? "You there, this project you've worked on, learned from, gotten joy from, been complimented on by your peers...I, with my 25 years of peerless wisdom, find it useless and you should feel bad for doing it"?

Sure...you're a real people person.

[chrsig]

to be useful to whom, exactly?

[sixtyj]

To other people, of course.

[kjs3]

It doesn't sound 'harsh'. It sounds 'condescending', especially when paired with a completely insincere "I apologize...".

It is about that life is too short to do things that are almost nonsense.

Jeez you must be a real joy to be around for the folks unfortunate enough to have to. /s

[password54321]

Why do web developers feel threatened that someone just built a web framework for fun?

[jermaustin1]

As a web developer who's first paid web site was in 1998 when I was 10-years-old, my favorite thing to do in my spare time is build web frameworks that I will never use.

- I've done CSS frameworks that replicate most of bootstrap that I use.

- I've made client-side reactive web-components (kind of) that almost replaced the parts of react that I like.

- I've built bespoke HTTP servers countless times since the VB6 days.

- And I've written my own MVC engines probably a half dozen times, just to learn a new language or library.

All of that to say, it isn't web devs who are threatened, it is developers who don't want to learn the underlying technologies that power the libraries and frameworks they use.

I actually see no fault in being that way. I've know tons of decent-to-good developers that have no desire to understand HTTP or Vanilla JavaScript, and they still do great work tying systems together. It's all about the kind of learner you are. Do you want depth, breadth, or a mixture of both (but always lacking in both - aka me).

[sixtyj]

That is what I wanted to say too… but I did it wrong way in previous comment.. oops

[jermaustin1]

We all trip up on our words sometimes. To err is human.

[jermaustin1]

An old boss of mine was an early developer for match.com, their entire web app was a monolithic C application, and, if I'm not mistaken, an ISCSI shared file-system based "database".

[sixtyj]

All big projects eventually have a specific background. I totally agree. Sometimes it works. Other times it doesn't work in long term and the cursed technology debt catches up with the company.