Competitors and Security

Why is that all competiting products with Iguana just absolutely fail on security?

Building a reliable, secure interface engine is a uniquely hard problem—so much so that no team of ordinary employee-level engineers can really pull it off. Even the best-funded competitors (like Rhapsody, Mirth, Qvera, and Cloverleaf) find themselves stuck: their core engines, written in Java, TCL, or JavaScript, are so technically fragile and full of debt that all they can do is bolt on shaky “value-added” features—never actually fixing the foundations. Security? It just doesn’t work.

These legacy products only get more vulnerable and unwieldy, focusing on flashy bolt-ons instead of core stability. In practice, any middleware platform built on Java or JavaScript simply cannot ever be made secure at the level required for critical infrastructure, and will eventually have to be replaced.

That’s why Iguana was built differently: C/C++ at its core, Lua scripting for flexible but secure extension, and a relentless focus on engineering excellence. This means real layered defenses and continual investment in security—rather than just marketing. We even build security testing tools for others, to help raise the bar industry-wide.

History shows that real security and stability come from solid engineering foundations—think Git (C) versus Mercurial (Python). Iguana brings that same philosophy to interface engines, and remains open-source wherever possible to drive true industry improvement.

With Iguana, you’re not piling features onto a rickety old engine—you’re starting with something fundamentally solid and secure, purpose-built for the future.