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by madaxe_again 3928 days ago
We've written extensive partial view caching with memcached in lua in nginx, none of us having known lua when we started. It's fast as hell and the learning curve really isn't steep. Most of the tricky stuff involved the nginx api and brain-wrecking recursive and nested calls - not the language.

They're welcome to spend time building their own JS VM, it's their project - and while I don't think this is intended to appeal to the existing userbase, I think it will attract an entire new userbase, which will further nginx as a webserver and aid the goals of those who use it (faster. faster. more speed. faster. fix the bugs.) as they get more use, more paid use, and thereby more developer time.