On 23/08/12 15:10, Neil Harris wrote:
On 23/08/12 07:18, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
But Lua is so fast compared to wikitext that our Lua developers will have to exercise a lot of creativity to find applications that will exceed the performance limits.
Famous words, kept in the archives forever :).
Siebrand
Indeed. I wonder how long it will be before someone uses Lua templates to do something like this:
-- N.
Just to clarify, in case anyone gets the wrong impression from my last two posts -- I'm not snarking against Tim here: Lua on MediaWiki is fantastic, will be one of the best things ever for the platform (along with the Visual Editor) and I look forward to using it on Wikipedia!
-- N.