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by rakoo 3928 days ago
> Making nginx do custom things that you'll probably need to do in a serious environment (example: dynamically programmable SSL SNI) requires craxy mods and hacks

> you get a full, turing complete programming language to completely control the flow of your data

Did you try nginx's lua support ? Because it doesn't seem to be that experimental and has its fair share of documentation already, on top of being much more performant than Javascript:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/lua/

http://openresty.org/