BSbsenftner·Apr 30, 2017
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
Read the rest
s a great idea for much more than startups. You just need good C++ developers that also know the web - a bit rare right now, but the savings are too real for the situation to remain that way.