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Strongly agree. Wordpress brags as powering whatever % of the internet... but if youve ever taken a look at some of that PHP source code... yikes Mind boggling
by fullstackchris 2y ago
Strongly agree. Wordpress brags as powering whatever % of the internet... but if youve ever taken a look at some of that PHP source code... yikes
Mind boggling to me such an overly complex system has such a large market share.
I'll take my Gatsby TypeScript React components / <<insert your favorite static site generator here>> any day
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoTechnical purity does not win business. Solutions do. WP has delivered a rich ecosystem that lets normal people put content on the web. Even if it annoys programmers at its technical debt.
- caseyy 2y agoIf they calculated the % in terms of CPU time used, they could have made the claim even more impressive.
- account42 2y agoDepends if you only include server CPU time or also browser CPU time. With the latter, more "modern" frameworks will "win" by orders of magnitude.