This is a battle that repeats itself ever so often. Same deal with kubernetes config files.
It's the same opinionated positions of puppet vs chef/ansible. Building the tooling in the form of an embedded programming language (lua for nginx, python for ansible) is so much better.
But that is a much more polarising position to take. It's politically untenable. Ruby engineers will say no to python and vice versa... So you start arriving at Json or XML based configurations which are a programmatic neutral ground.
IMHO lua-jit occupies the same political neutrality as XML.
It's the same opinionated positions of puppet vs chef/ansible. Building the tooling in the form of an embedded programming language (lua for nginx, python for ansible) is so much better.
But that is a much more polarising position to take. It's politically untenable. Ruby engineers will say no to python and vice versa... So you start arriving at Json or XML based configurations which are a programmatic neutral ground.
IMHO lua-jit occupies the same political neutrality as XML.