Re:Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again
by meritt on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:33AM
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> I'm actually curious why PHP was chosen
From the article: "However, by 2015, as VisualEditor and Parsoid matured and became established, maintaining two parallel wikitext engines in perpetuity was untenable"
They didn't write it in PHP for speed, that was merely a side effect. They wrote it in PHP so they could have a single language for the system.
From the article: "However, by 2015, as VisualEditor and Parsoid matured and became established, maintaining two parallel wikitext engines in perpetuity was untenable"
They didn't write it in PHP for speed, that was merely a side effect. They wrote it in PHP so they could have a single language for the system.