Thread:User talk:Pastakhov/Some ideas regarding PhpTags/reply (3)

If you make a PhpTags SMW extension, that's way more than I expected. :) I think I can then maintain it (and perhaps add further functionality, if needed) without problems. I'm keeping track of the development of the major extensions I use in any case, and then that would come to include both Semantic MediaWiki and PhpTags.

Regarding being the only one (apart from you of course) showing interest in PhpTags, it seems to me that there is generally not much interest in scripting so far. That includes Scribunto as well, outside of the Wikipedia sites. This lack of interest is perhaps not so surprising, because as of yet, what has been made available does not add such great capabilities. When that changes, I think that's the time when interest in scripting extensions may increase in general.

The plans you have sound very interesting, though I'd also expect that getting it all done, if that happens, will take quite some time. Though in the meantime, as PhpTags functionality is extended, it may sooner become the most powerful scripting extension thus far. Good luck, and I guess we'll see where it all goes. :)

As for performance: I know that PhpTags doesn't directly run PHP code, but I was thinking that if PHP itself is speeded up, then the PhpTags bytecode interpreter would run the scripts faster. That may not be so important, though, since it performs well anyway.