User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing Service-Oriented Architecture, A New Approach to Software Development/@comment-5288784-20160829215759/@comment-27274331-20160829221541

MediaWiki does an awful lot for us, and we'd much rather put our effort into building new and better things instead of rebuilding the stuff we already have. I doubt we'll see MediaWiki going away any time soon.

What you are likely to see, though, is that over time more and more of what appears when you read or edit an article won't be generated by MediaWiki alone, but with the help of many smaller services working together to build different parts of the page. If we do it right, you won't be able to tell which is which.