A complete rewrite of a mega-popular project is a big ask. If you're going to make a big ask like that, it behooves you to make your request as persuasive as po

A complete rewrite of a mega-popular project is a big ask. If you're going to make a big ask like that, it behooves you to make your request as persuasive as possible. This request could be made more persuasive by answering the following questions: * No real caching engine support in the core (APC, memcache, etc) Why is the popular WP Super-Cache plugin inadequate for caching? Perhaps it should be shipped and enabled with the default install, which would be one hundred million times easier than rewriting the core. * There is no built-in support for an ORM or other databases like Postgres. WordPress is deliberately built around the most ubiquitous language/database environment: PHP and MySQL. What would it gain by giving up this simplicity and supporting a different database? Would the tradeoff be worth it, given how many other CMS's exist? * The obvious answer is to rewrite WordPress with Django In what way would the result still be WordPress? WordPress is distinguished not by a unique feature set, but by ubiquity and ease of deployment, which would be lost if it were rewritten in Django.