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Doing web development in c and getting that sweet performance boost is very tempting but the time it takes to develop even a simple website is just not worth it. I would rather spend a few pound extra on servers and goto the cinema than the hours of developer time it would take to build PHP sites in C++

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You can get the same performance boost without the footgun of C if you use e.g. Go, I've done so for a while now and I'm quite enamoured by it. Possible downside is that it ships with a runtime, so binaries are at least 10MB (before optimizing for size).

That said, you mention PHP, I wonder how PHP running in HHVM compares to a more bare metal solution (or regular interpreted PHP).

Today there is little reason to use HHVM since modern PHP comes with JIT

I agree, Anyone who runs a Go web service would probably concur. Switching to Go for my web applications has not only enabled me to make faster releases but has also increased the capital efficiency from the cost savings for HW resources(Because of efficiency).

You just using some "framework" to develop C++ apps. This framework should give you place for you DO_FUNCTION() and everything else is implemented: 80-port-listening, DB-interaction and so on.

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