[mtourne]

That is not fully true.

It became a lot more true during 2013, but CloudFlare had already been operating for a few years then. A lot of fairly simple code was retired to the profit of Lua code, which is way easier to maintain.

There are still important modules written in C and compiled with Nginx. There are also proprietary extensions of the ngx_lua api to manipulate internal some internal aspects of Nginx within the scripts.

source: I wrote a good chunk of both iterations.