Rediscovering C++: Building a High-Performance Blog Engine in 2026

I've been a programmer for… well, a long time. My early days were spent in the computer lab, practicing C and C++ on floppy disks — yes, actual floppy disks. After finishing my engineering degree, I drifted into Oracle ERP and database-heavy business applications. The problem? I loved coding, but my day-to-day was mostly SQL scripts and reports. Hands-on software engineering felt like a distant memory. The Journey Back to Programming Fast forward to the pandemic era: remote work opened new doors. I finally had time to dive back into programming. I explored Erlang and Elixir, played around with eex, leex, and heex, and even worked on a small Elixir project. But frameworks were moving fast — LiveView, EEx → LEEx changes, constant churn. Go Fiber was fun for prototypes. Rust (Actix, Axum) was powerful. But I kept hitting the same limitation: backend frameworks are great, but full-featured frontend UX still requires a SPA framework, and server-rendered solutions often felt limited unless y