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weland on July 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: KORE – A fast SPDY-capable webserver for web devel...

It's quite a gift for embedded systems. It's very convenient to have a self-contained solution for a web interface, rather than drag an interpreter and a web server on an already crowded rootfs. Plus, you can get the benefit of static analysis and the like, which is extra useful on such systems.

drdaeman on July 5, 2013 [–]

I believe there are relatively many AOT-compiled-to-native-code languages other than C.

pi18n on July 6, 2013 | [–]

But have they equal tooling? That's why I'd be using C if I were using C for something; it's "portable assembly".

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