A Modern Web App in C

A developer successfully built and shipped a commercial web application (marketyour.games) using C with CGI, OpenBSD, httpd, and SQLite—the same fundamental technology used for dynamic websites in 1994. The stack requires only three external dependencies, compiles into a single binary, and eliminates the need for frameworks, templating languages, separate databases, or containers, making it simple to understand and deploy. The author argues that CGI's decline was justified in 2004 but is no longer relevant in 2026, demonstrating that modern web applications can be effectively built with minimal complexity using established fundamentals.