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Interesting. At the time we did it with Lua. We extended Nginx and Envoy-proxy with a Rust library (and a server), and added a Lua interface, so users can fur

• benwilber0 2y ago
  I've used OpenResty extensively which is basically just nginx + luajit with a lot of additional APIs and features. The nginx-lua-module is available separately from the OpenResty distribution of nginx, so you can just install and run it as a dynamic nginx module.
  • tzury 2y ago
    Indeed, OpenResty comes with Lua and LuaJIT built-in. Earlier version where we've implemented all in Lua, had no need for that. However, as we went fro Lua to Rust (and speed up by using only 15% CPU comparing to the Lua), we added that Lua interface support to the rust, and it worked like a charm.