Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants

Re:Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants by drawkbox on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:20AM (#1147331)

Coming up next are backend interactions and cache improvements, refactoring of the rewrite module, and probably new embedded languages: Javascript or Lua.

I really hope he includes lua and javascript. Both would be cutting edge (Javascript server side is still pretty new) and Lua which should be used more. Kepler Project (http://www.keplerproject.org/) is pretty good but Lua gets no love, this could change things big time for Lua.

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Re:Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants by simonw on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:41AM (#1148058)

I wouldn't call server-side JavaScript "new" as such - Netscape were experimenting with it in 1996: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

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Re:Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants by drawkbox on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:57AM (#1148405)

True, but in terms of people using it in production and some of the faster JS engines like V8, Tamarin, Spidermonkey, Rhino etc it is having a resurgence now that it is getting to fast enough.

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Re:Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants by aschobel on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:11AM (#1147563)

Lua support inside of Lighttpd via mod_magnet is quite powerful for rewrites. Curious if there is a nginx equivalent.

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Re:Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants by piranha on Thursday February 25, 2010 @07:27AM (#1150524)

here is small rant about v8 in nginx by Igor: http://sysoev.ru/prog/v8.html

It's in russian unfortunately... Probably google translate will help? In short - article says that V8 is not ready to be embedded in servers because of certain shortcomings.

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