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The most important difference is that as of early 2023, there are practically no usable Wikifunctions, while there is an enormous existing codebase written as wikitext templates and Lua modules. This codebase is stable and tested, it has worked in production for years, and it has skilled maintainers. It provides important features, which are used on millions of wiki pages, and which users in many more wikis want to use. In theory, these features could be rewritten as Wikifunctions, but given that it took about twenty years to write them in the first place, it may take many years more to rewrite them.