User blog comment:Grunny/Introducing Lua, for faster and more powerful templates/@comment-24842353-20140611155833

To be honest I never liked when Wikimedia wikis introduced this. It's just way too complicated for the average user in my opinion. Sure, wikisyntax isn't simple, but it's easy enough to learn over a month or so's time. Learning an entirely different language just to make templates such as infoboxes is an extra, unnecessary step when making templates for a wiki. For wiki administrators, wikisyntax is something they need to learn, and having this method for templates is just one extra thing they have to learn. An admin's time could be better-spent developing great features for their community instead of learning a new, unnecessary programming language for a wiki, in my opinion.