>Isn't that the same for Nginx? You still have to compile when you add new plugin? nope. That has been fixed with recent development versions that support load

>Isn't that the same for Nginx? You still have to compile when you add new plugin? nope. That has been fixed with recent development versions that support loading plugins as shared libraries. For distros, that's very important because it allows them to ship much more configurable nginx packages as now plugins can be added as-needed.