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> shake the baggage of being PHP PHP is why WordPress was a success. PHP is available basically everywhere, for cheap. You can get a $5/month hosting plan that
by kemayo 2y ago
> shake the baggage of being PHP
PHP is why WordPress was a success. PHP is available basically everywhere, for cheap. You can get a $5/month hosting plan that'll give you a VPS with mod_php and mysql and you'll be able to install WordPress. (Also, WordPress put some actual effort into having a quick-and-simple setup process. If you can upload some files onto a server, it can take it from there.) Thus anyone can trivially install WordPress.
There's "better" languages, but even today they tend to require more of you to get a working site deployed.
- jopsen 2y agoIt's actually a bit surprising that no other languages tries to make server pages the way php and asp3 did. Of course the model is flawed, but so easy to get started with :)