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by sinzone 3928 days ago
The purpose is to give the power of LUA scripting (via OpenResty, used by companies like Cloudflare) in the hands of more people, since Lua is a small community (even tho, it's great, easy to learn and fast). Thus, adopting JS is the solution for them.

Disclaimer: we built one of the biggest Lua+Nginx project [1]

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong