https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29087

--- Comment #8 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> 2011-05-23 23:29:02 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I believe string functions are disabled for a reason... (ie they give crap
> > performance)
> 
> Last I heard, the reason was "We would rather have Lua or some other real
> language. Never mind that no one is working on it and the various requirements
> (e.g. a pure-PHP implementation must exist for use by people on crappy hosting
> who want to reuse Wikipedia templates) increase the work needed dramatically."

There is the InlineScripts extension now, which should already be better than
StringFunctions for just about everything. Maybe we could enable it on
Wikimedia if a little more work were done on it.

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