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> For example; I doubt I’ll ever be reaching for C when writing a web service simply because the ecosystem around that domain isn’t great and I’m not itching to write my http framework at this time. C has everything, including several top quality http frameworks. I use https://github.com/corvusoft/restbed and find it more reliable, more performant, and "better" in all respects than the php, js, node, and whatever frameworks I've been forced to learn.

Currently using Restbed (https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed) as the server core, wxWidgets as a server side gui, with Boost, Curl, SQLite and Standard Lib. It's not that complex, beyond using lambdas in a few places. It has extremely high performance, and can run on an Intel Compute Stick, but I tend to use an Intel Nuc at minimum, with clients typically using whatever they have, gaining over redundancy and an ability to pair down. The memory management in a C++ application is just another resource one manages with whatever level of algorithm support you feel comfortable. There are ref-counting systems and complete garbage collectors available one can integrate into their business logic, unlike in a high level language that "transparently" manages memory outside application control. Have you ever thought about how much processing a typ

FWIW, I use Restbed for this type of work. https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed

Just use Restbed and you have as much of Apache's abilities as you want. I've been using Restbed for a few years now, for a communications application that scales from enterprise to embeds inside devices, and Restbed handles it all. https://github.com/corvusoft/restbed

Interested parties desiring production quality security and significanlty better performance than CGI, check out the C++11 library Restbed https://github.com/corvusoft/restbed Restbed replaces Apache, or put another way puts the web server inside your application, so your C++ app is its own server. It is easy to create REST APIs with executable as small as 100K, and that is all you need - no Apache or Nginx other web server needed. I have created a fairly sophisticated facial recognition REST API that host itself, only occupies 500K and can run circles around pretty much anything - while running on a $99 Intel Compute Stick. I've created web sites and servers and web APIs in a most of the fashionable web best practices, and I gotta say Restbed blows everything away.

The tooling is just arriving to enable as rapid a development cycle in C++ as with managed languages. I was having multiple issues, only optimizing portions of a traditional (W/L)AMP stack or node.js solution with C/C++ components until I found Restbed (https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed). Now I can create a complete self-contained REST API server in a 100K executable with no (W/L)AMP stack or other infrastructure required. Compiling C++ is fast, and unlike the typical (W/L)AMP, node.js, or other "conventional web stack" one is not compiling and/or executing through gigs of data and executable - the re-compile and execute/debug cycle in C++ for Restbed is instantaneous on modern hardware, and the execution speed runs circles around any managed language. Such a development solution is faster, consumes exponentially fewer resources, and i

We're excited to announce the release of Restbed 2.0. With this release the asynchronous RESTful framework is capable of HTTP 1.1 compliance. https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed