I&#x27;ve been playing with OpenResty + MoonScript (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;moonscript.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;moonscript.org</a>) for various web app middleware features, and so far it&#x27;s been fantastic. The performance is pretty much as good as you can get without a full C&#x2F;C++ rewrite, and Lua&#x2F;MoonScript is better than serving dynamic content solely with nginx config directives.