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Say what you will about WordPress - its codebase, security, speed, architecture, DB schema, whatever. Haters are going to hate. It's a pretty amazing accomplis

Say what you will about WordPress - its codebase, security, speed, architecture, DB schema, whatever. Haters are going to hate. It's a pretty amazing accomplishment what Automattic has done by staying so popular and relevant for so long. Looking at it from a non-hardcore programmer's perspective: * Quick to learn backend * Easy to use plugins for non-devs * Painfully maintaining backwards compatibility overtime * It just works. Built to run from basically a potato of a server. E.g.: HTTP/transport check [1] [1]: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/class-http.php#L430 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includ...

nocman 10y ago
"Haters are going to hate." -- by using that phrase you make it sound like people are criticizing WordPress without cause. I haven't looked into it recently, but as I remember it, in the last 13 years there have been abundant legitimate reasons to criticize WordPress (many in the categories you listed). Yes, some people will hate on something just because they don't like it (regardless of any merit it may have). But I wouldn't lump in all of the people with legit criticisms of WordPress into the same group as "haters".