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Re:Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP ... by securityfreak on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:18AM (#19430073)
Drogon is an application framework. Nginx is a web server. You can’t write a custom application in nginx. You can write almost anything in Drogon.

Both handle HTTP requests, but nginx mostly forwards requests to other stacks.

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Re:Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP ... by dagw on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:21AM (#19430092)
You can’t write a custom application in nginx.

Using Nginx modules and LuaJIT, you kind of can. OpenResty is a web framework built using this principle.

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