Practitioner comparison, grounded in running WireGuard as the egress layer of a hardened Linux workstation (the ironveil project). Architecture rationale only — no endpoints, addresses or peer configurations are reproduced here.
The WireGuard-vs-OpenVPN question is usually answered with a throughput benchmark, which is the least interesting difference between them. The differences that matter in practice are auditability, failure behaviour, and what the configuration model forces you to get right. Having run both — and settled on WireGuard for full-tunnel egress on my