[zivkovicp]

This is almost always the case, no matter the service we're talking about.

[no_time]

Is this how we ended up with electron for desktop applications and Java for backend?

[philipwhiuk]

Yes, because developers and expensive and so developer productivity dominates almost everything else.

[eddieroger]

Also, "pick what you know" applies here, too. If you know NGINX, then all you get from switching to Caddy is experience, and likewise, vice versa.

[mholt]

*and memory safety*

This cannot be understated. Caddy is not written in C! And it can even run your NGINX configs. :) https://github.com/caddyserver/nginx-adapter

[excitom]

A solution in search of a problem.

[5d8767c68926]

Nginx security page [0] lists a non-zero amount of exploitable issues rooted in manual memory management.

[0] https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html