windows service

Hi /prog/ rammers,

In your experience, what's the best language+framework for writing a windows service in?

The actual thing it will be doing is simple (making an http request every five minutes so as to keep track of the current external IP address of the network) but all the service-related stuff I have never done before. Any tips?

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In /prog, you'll get bashed for C, C++ and Python alike.

Personally I feel sympathy for doing it in Python (if you need to be productive and don't care for CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN OMG SUPER OPTIMIZED), or doing it in C if millions of people will use it and you want the maximum performance/lowest memory use.