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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Web development for C or C++ hackers?

I was wondering if there is some kind of web framework like django for C and C++ programmers.

I already know quite well those two languages and I know how long it takes learn a language WELL (overall if complex and liberal as C++),
so I was wondering if I could start web development with those languages.

Or it is better I start studying Python?

Advices? Ideas?
thanks

WhiteMagic

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Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 85

Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

The one web thingy for C++ I came across was Wt. I have never used it so can't say anything about it and to be honest to me using C++ for webstuff sounds scary but why not :-)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

to be honest to me using C++ for webstuff sounds scary but why not :-)

It doesn't feel natural to me either...

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

The author of http://nonoba.com/ said the backend is C++-based when I asked him how it worked once. So there are things like that out there.

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2008-11-28 13:47:26)

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bluewind

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

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Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

Maybe this helps you http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html

gnud

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Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 182

Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

I'm not sure it's "scary". It's certainly more work to do properly

You basically have 4 options:
A) Use CGI. Simple, because your app is spawned once per request. So, there is no real need to do advanced resource management. OTOH, it's kinda slow - because a new process is spawned for each request. Wikipedia is your friend - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

B) Use FCGI. More complex. Your app stays resident and communicates with the web server via a socket (UNIX or TCP/IP). Read introduction, and find a nice C++ lib, at http://cryp.to/publications/fastcgi/

C) Write a "native" web server module -- the howto will differ wildly between servers.

D) Write your own web server with the app baked in. Ouch.

catwell

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From: Bretagne, France

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 207

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Re: Web development for C or C++ hackers?

You really don't want to use C. Try Perl, it accepts a syntax very close to that of C and is much more adapted to web apps.