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Not posting to make a counterpoint but simply because related and interesting for the C++ folks around here.

> Wt is a web GUI library in modern C++. Quickly develop highly interactive web UIs with widgets, without having to write a single line of JavaScript. Wt handles all request handling and page rendering for you, so you can focus on functionality.

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23812791



Thanks, but just a reminder of why we don't use C++ for web applications: creating a web app is basically a string manipulation problem. The work in most cases is just getting data from a database and returning text that represents the HTML+CSS in the web page. Not only you don't need the C++ speed to do this process, but string manipulation is also the weak spot of C++, due to the need for manual memory management.


Yes, the ease of safe string manipulation is quite possibly one of the clearest wins for Rust over C++.




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