John O'Nolan was interviewed by the SE Daily podcast last summer; I found his remarks about the selection of NodeJS being a mistake to be the most interesting -

John O'Nolan was interviewed by the SE Daily podcast last summer; I found his remarks about the selection of NodeJS being a mistake to be the most interesting -- even though that choice earned them lots of notice on boards like Hacker News and reddit. Check out the podcast link below (includes a link to a transcript if you would rather read/search for O'Nolan commenting that they would have been years further ahead on the features roadmap had they gone with Laravel or similar PHP framework). https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/26/ghost-open-source-publishing-platform-with-john-onolan/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/26/ghost-open-s...