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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:49:25 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> PHP is a bit quicker than C.  And making e.g. Apache use PHP is a well
> documented piece of cake. Making it run C is a lot more effort.

I don't know what the current status is but at one time Apache/FastCGI 
using C was a reasonable approach. Anything I've done in the last 10 years 
uses node/express on the backend. Deno and bun are challenging node but I 
don't see an advantage at this point. Neither are particularly stable.