To be fair NGINX config is not better. An ad-hoc grown soup of syntax without a clear concept to govern it all. I would prefer a simple JSON file any day. Or s

To be fair NGINX config is not better. An ad-hoc grown soup of syntax without a clear concept to govern it all. I would prefer a simple JSON file any day. Or some Lispy S-expressions. Or some TOML or well structured XML and XSD even. NGINX makes you learn another lang only for one tool and for a config, which mostly (always?) does not need anything more than being declarative config.