Thread:Extension talk:VisualEditor/Stable Version - When?/reply (4)

We do not plan to make a PHP version of Parsoid (for language design reasons - PHP would be ridiculously slow to run Parsoid), no, sorry. However, we are hoping to eventually (probably next year) be able to provide a version of MediaWiki that does not need to store its contents in wikitext at all, which would mean that VisualEditor could edit "natively" without the need for Parsoid.