Writing a web application in C sounds like a good trigger for an utterance from the Jargon File: "You could do that, but that'd be like kicking dead whales down the beach."
We've advanced the state of the art quite a bit with dramatically more expressive languages than C that are sufficiently efficient in terms of memory and CPU. This is especially true when communications are occurring over HTTP and not direct socket-to-socket comms.
Why use C instead of D, Rust, Go, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell, Swift, OCaml, Objective-C...?
I didn't miss C++, it just seems a worse alternative than C.
We've advanced the state of the art quite a bit with dramatically more expressive languages than C that are sufficiently efficient in terms of memory and CPU. This is especially true when communications are occurring over HTTP and not direct socket-to-socket comms.
Why use C instead of D, Rust, Go, C#, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell, Swift, OCaml, Objective-C...?
I didn't miss C++, it just seems a worse alternative than C.