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> How does that not make it safer than using a memory unsafe language? It was never compared to using a memory unsafe language. It was compared to a wildly use

> How does that not make it safer than using a memory unsafe language? It was never compared to using a memory unsafe language. It was compared to a wildly used and battle-tested open source software.

marcinzm 4y ago
Nginx is written in C which is probably where the comparison is coming from.
pornel 4y ago
Cloudflare uses a custom fork of nginx, with custom extensions, Lua FFI, and improved HTTP/2 and caching modules. So it is a comparison to development of in-house C.