Thread:Extension talk:Scribunto/Why Lua?/reply (3)

In Scribunto presentation there are two slides: and.

It looks impossible but I managed to combine the advantages and to remove disadvantages from both items. I made very quick "WikiScript" with syntax well-known PHP language and I wrote it on pure PHP.

Pros:
 * Well-known language, likely familiar to our users.
 * We could make it work however we want.
 * Interpreter is written in PHP.
 * Anyone running MediaWiki has PHP available.
 * It is really fast :-)

Cons:
 * Can always be found, but I do not know.

About speed. Of course the speed of LUA disproportionately more than it is my solution. Maybe it too loudly but overall MediaWiki with my solution is faster than with LUA.