Thread:Talk:Release Management RFP/NicheWork and Hallo Welt!/Release Management and Visual Editor/reply (9)

Totally agree! This is why I started working with the Debian and Fedora packages instead of telling users "don't use the packaged MediaWiki". As long as there is a smooth pathway to do that, it shouldn't be a problem.

The problem is with the thousands of installed wikis that are already out there. If we can provide them with a supported WYSIWYG editor that they can install into their existing wiki, that would be a real win.

I would like to see a side-by-side comparison. I haven't looked at benchmarks for PHP vs V8. I have heard a lot of good things about v8 and, yes, PHP is crap. That isn't the point, though.

Most people don't run sites as popular as Wikipedia and a slower parser won't matter. I have a client who runs on a VM with about 512M of memory. Speed isn't what he is concerned with. If you have a PHP parser that is slower, but doesn't take minutes to run, the installation and overhead of running node.js is going to be a problem.