4 ms·

Wordpress saga is spicy in itself but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotne

by pooper 2y ago

Wordpress saga is spicy in itself but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotnet or java. However, what else can we do? There are only so many hours in a day. What reasonable alternative do I have?

TechDebtDevin 2y ago
html doesn't have this issue :)
jjav 2y ago
Using only open standards and open source with a suitable license. Being disciplined about this is very difficult, see RMS. But it is the way.
- odo1242 2y ago
  I mean, Wordpress is open source with a suitable license (GPLv2). You can install plugins from wherever you want. So is every piece of software implicated in this drama, including Advanced Custom Fields (free edition) I really don’t see how the discussion of open source pertains to Wordpress
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
esskay 2y ago
Sightly different comparing a cms to an entire programming language. A more apt comparison would be your career being entirely focused on Umbraco or OpenCMS rather than dotnet or java.
manishsharan 2y ago
>>but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotnet or java Java is open with competing implementations from Oracle, Redhat,AWS and of course OpenJDK and several other providers.
- jraph 2y ago
  Aren't all these distributions of openjdk, therefore largely being the same codebase?
  - odo1242 2y ago
    Yeah, there’s really two main implementations of Java - OpenJDK and GraalVM. Both are decently mature/stable.
    - joshuaissac 2y ago
      There is IBM OpenJ9, which is compatible with the latest versions of HotSpot. IKVM.NET is active but only supports Java 8.
      - odo1242 2y ago
        Oh, never mind lol