[mrkurt]

I really love Varnish, but hate VCL. I wish they'd have embedded Lua or something. There's all sorts of cool stuff you could do with better scripting.

[papaf]

I think the unique point about VCL is that it compiles down to machine code. Varnish makes a big thing about doing things the fastest way possible.

[apgwoz]

I didn't realize this for some reason, makes it a bit more obvious as to why you can actually embed C. /slaps forehead

[jacquesm]

VCL is actually one of the strong points of varnish, if you have a more complex situation you can pull all kinds of tricks without slowing down.