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> I must admit I have never actually built a production service using CGI/C/httpd

Nor would you probably want to. In addition to the security nightmere that hooking an inexperienced c programmer's c program directly to the internet is, CGI is not really known for scaling all that well. Like if you were really doing this on a real high performance site you'd probably want to use FastCGI. But also you just wouldn't do this. If you want to be low level, at least use rust.



The cost if launching a process that’s not a JIT interpreter is tiny. It’s also a fixed cost, so it does scale.

In 2023 people are using lambdas on was. Slow cgi is fast enough.




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