Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-24473195-20140823182718/@comment-24473195-20140824184039

Thanks. Basically a template can access any data returned by an extension using []. So it may be possible to decode it using lua. I wasn't keen on trying it because it seemed unlikely.

Anyway, you make very good points on the limitations of lua, but even in its current state it is far better than those messy templates with hundreds of curly brackets.

Personally I think Wikipedia should just consolidate the tree things, templates, javascripts, and extensions, and provide a better way to interface between the three. But I don't see that happening any time soon...