[fideloper]

HN and it's predictable level of antipathy is a constant disappointment. Hating is the norm, do better. Put more thought into your opinions.

Personal feelings of Javascript aside (not my favorite either!), I think this is a great business move (adoption, excitement, blog-o-sphere marketing, even if some users shoot themselves in the foot), and I think it opens up exciting possibilities, including creating Nginx+ features fo'free.

[striking]

Anything you can do in nginScript, you can do in Lua. Except that Lua was lightweight to begin with. This isn't JS (as we know it), this doesn't get access to the Node/npm/bower/whatever ecosystems.

The antipathy is a symptom of our JavaScript disease. We have grown tired of this affliction. We understand now what makes it less great than we once thought. The churn of rapidly growing and devolving JS frameworks, the slog of awful design-by-committee processes putting the language together... it is nothing compared to Lua's simplicity.

And some clever fellows understood this long ago, on a site much like this one. Feel free to take a look. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890685