> believe the MediaWiki parser itself is something like a single 5000 line PHP function! It's not. I'm on mobile so not easiest to link, but the PHP versio of

> believe the MediaWiki parser itself is something like a single 5000 line PHP function! It's not. I'm on mobile so not easiest to link, but the PHP versio of the parser is nothing like a single function. There is also a nodejs version of the parser under active development with the goal of replacing the php parser.