Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-166269-20150217184425/@comment-24473195-20150220131148

Cqm wrote: @Dessamator: Wikia is actually testing a code editor as we speak, it's enabled on w:c:ct if you wanted to look, e.g. http://communitytest.wikia.com/wiki/Module:Test?action=edit Wikipedia's modules are used in thousands of pages because their templates were before they were converted to use lua. I doubt it's indicative of a greater percentage of users wanting to use lua, it's probably a similarly low amount of the editing population. Software development in general is not something people can easily get into. So I'll concede that perhaps there aren't many people interested in using or willing to learn it. But for those few who are interested, creating modules and debugging them is hellish. If software developers such as myself find the experience tiresome and the interface not very usable, that means that likely only few highly motivated users will try it.

As far as the use of modules in wikipedia is concerned. They took the initiative to convert the most frequently used templates, which required developer/community interest and input, something that is severely lacking in wikia. The existence of high use modules means that there'll always be a need someone to maintain them or wikipedia itself may face consistent complaints or technical problems, that in turn gives rise to more developers/staff, and users who create or fix important modules.

Anyway, the new codeeditor is a step in the right direction (numbered lines should have been added years ago for regular pages as well as javascript, in my opinion). Oddly enough CSS pages seem to have had them for a long time.

P.S. If you have any influence with the developers I'd suggest that they add a link to a faq or even make use of the empty space on the right to add templates structures for methods, loops, if statements, tables, and keyboard shortcuts.