Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18095-20151007212617/@comment-168424-20151007225557

All good points, but many of the problems with something like dev.wikia.com are more based on lack of advertisement and lack of trust. A very low percentage of wikis use Javascript (according to Wikia), so I suspect the number of wikis knowingly using Lua is probably much, much smaller.

I am very aware of dev.wikia.com, but even I'm not sure if I totally trust it. It's like an even less reliable version of MediaWiki extensions. Things get out-of-date and the author hasn't been around sometimes for years. Something partially works, but no one wants to fix it. Lua doesn't help this situation and sometimes makes it actually worse. Lua seems shoe-horned into MediaWiki, so documentation is harder to do and Wikia won't actually say what parts of Lua it's willing to support.

All that said, Wikia is working on a replacement or better version of dev.wikia.com, but they have so much on their plate (security), that it could be years before it happens.