So, I would like to ask, would anyone be interested in developing the alternative Creole parser for MediaWiki?
I don't remember anyone volunteering last time we discussed it. It's a massive task, probably months of work. Someone interested in writing a parser from scratch would probably do better spending their time re-writing the MediaWiki parser (which is probably a larger job, but I expect it would be more useful - I'm not sure, though, since I don't even understand the parser well enough to truly understand the problems with it).