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Not terribly difficult. I wrote my own blogging engine in C [1] which I still use [2] (it also uses this library I wrote: [3]). Last modification I made: support for gopher [4] for that "retro feel."

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[2] http://boston.conman.org/

[3] https://github.com/spc476/CGILib

[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/

i think fefes cms is written in C... [1]

[1] http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html

Eeyup. A 2009 version is archived at https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c

The best part is that where stores his posts. SQL? Nope. NoSQL? Nope. Plain text files? Nope. Fucking LDAP. [1]

[1] Source: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27

it would be pretty easy to make one using c pre processor

If you build it on ribs2 (with garbage collection) it wouldn't be too hard.

I'm not sure if I think writing C with a garbage collector is a good exercise for learning the subtleties of the language.

If you figure out how the garbage collector works (it's a C library) then you'll learn :)