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> it would be nice to know what the benefits are vs nginx and other off the shelf solutions.

Biggest difference in my view is being able to make synchronous blocking calls directly into any arbitrary business code in order to determine the fate of a request. This can include rule/policy engines as well as auditing & tracing frameworks.

Lua in nginx can you get very far in my experience.

Lua vs C# - chose your poison. There's a ton of AspNet Core libraries for handling http things e.g. JWT handling. Things that might need the licensed version of nginx.

Also it's embeddable and self-hostable into any .NET / AspNet Core application.

One benefit is that you can run it on your existing IIS cluster where you already run yor stuff.

> The readme explains the benefit for Microsoft but not how it stacks against off the self solutions.

Totally agree. Seems to me that the main benefit is that it's easy to extend in .NET, vs. C/C++/Lua/WASM.