Which is the case for all technologies at one time. With that line of thinking, we would all be using Internet Explorer.
JavaScript did not birth with a fully formed userbase.
JavaScript did not birth with a fully formed userbase.
The whole idea behind this effort is to facilitate contributions to Wikimedia from a diverse set of (presumably busy) contributors, correct? If so, what's the point in making them learn a new language in order to contribute, when an existing well-known language is a perfectly reasonable fit?
Sounds like someone had a Lua hammer, so everything looked like a Lua nail.
Same could be said for most of the JS proponents in the thread.