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I really love Varnish, but hate VCL. I wish they'd have embedded Lua or something. There's all sorts of cool stuff you could do with better scripting.

I think the unique point about VCL is that it compiles down to machine code. Varnish makes a big thing about doing things the fastest way possible.

I didn't realize this for some reason, makes it a bit more obvious as to why you can actually embed C. /slaps forehead

VCL is actually one of the strong points of varnish, if you have a more complex situation you can pull all kinds of tricks without slowing down.

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