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Discussion on: Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

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Douglas Lenz

Totally agree. I'd even take it one step further and say that we should be writing web applications in C. All you have to do is read RFC 2616 (tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616) to get a good idea how to start writing an HTTP server. But it's important that people know how HTTP works and writing the server yourself is the best way. This isn't re-inventing the wheel. This is having an actual understanding of the protocol driving your application. Not to mention a lot of people fail to implement their own relational databases and simply rely on the likes of PostgreSQL, MySQL or worse, a no-SQL solution.