I missed the original hint in October 2014 , so this came as a surprise to me.
Also, eventually, JavaScript can be used as [an] application language for Nginx. Currently we have only Perl and Lua [supported in Nginx]. Perl is our own model, and Lua is a third-party model.
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We’re planning JavaScript configurations, using JavaScript in [an] Nginx configuration. We plan to be more efficient on these [configurations], and we plan to develop a flexible application platform. You can use JavaScript snippets inside configurations to allow more flexible handling of requests, to filter responses, to modify responses. Also,
It seems Nginx is evolving into a bigger & bigger beast. I’m not yet sure what to think of JavaScript as a scripting language next to LUA in Nginx. At first sight, it looks like overkill. Like it’s turning Nginx from the lean mean HTTP serving machine into a more bloated application server.
At the same time, it always struck me as odd that Nginx had a POP3 and IMAP proxy.
Maybe I’m just missing the vast amount of users that use Nginx as a TCP load balancers instead of just an HTTP webserver?