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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

to be useful to whom, exactly?

To other people, of course.

OP has done more to be useful to other people than you did in this particular thread. Ok, so what if it has been done many times before, this is his, it may not be perfect and it may not be immediately useful to you. But it increased his knowledge and he shipped, which is more than I can say for 95% of my own projects, so that's impressive by itself. He also opened himself up to criticism and takes it all in stride, which is another fairly scary but powerful thing to do.

Fun fact: I've built something very much like this that powered a number of programs that I sold over the years and it was written when I wasn't nearly as good of a programmer as I am now (take off 30 years of additional experience). If I look at OP's code there are a whole raft of nitpicks but there isn't anything immediately and obviously wrong with it and just speaking for myself, that is surprising because most people's C code is - and I'm being generous here - absolutely terrible. This has potential, but I'd have to really dig in to see how solid it is and I don't have time for that right now, but I've seen far worse code than this.

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.

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

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