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Have you tried KrakenD? https://www.krakend.io/ - plugins are written in Go

Have you seen https://github.com/zalando/skipper? You can implement custom filters in Golang.

I used kong on premise is there a use case for it when aws and the likes offer API gateway solutions?

we're using the kong gateway controller on aws eks, it's pretty neat. I prefer to manage it via argocd/gitops over terraform.

Lua has some pretty neat sandbox-type features. I wonder if choosing it is related.

Assuming it is built on top of OpenResty https://github.com/openresty/openresty

What would you prefer to write plugins in?

Because I have custom needs

I mean what language other than lua?