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No, Lua is being offered alongside wikitext. Lua is a full-fledged programming language, so while it's much more powerful and efficient than wikitext and ParserFunctions, it is also somewhat more complicated to use. If you already know Javascript or another programming language, though, you shouldn't have much trouble at all picking up Lua, especially since it was explicitly designed to be simple, lightweight, and easy to learn. And yes, there are plenty of tutorials for Lua; it was selected for use on wikis as an already-existing language, as opposed to being created specifically for that use, and in the past has been used widely in places where a lightweight scripting language was needed (many video games, for example, have made use of Lua for scripting).