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Wordpress code is amazingly awful, but Wordpress is also a general-purpose blogging/publishing platform meant to be installed anywhere, be extended by plugins a
by midnightmonster 18y ago
Wordpress code is amazingly awful, but Wordpress is also a general-purpose blogging/publishing platform meant to be installed anywhere, be extended by plugins and themes, and serve the needs of many, many people. If you write your own blogging platform that does just what you need without worrying about drop-in installation, plugins, themes, or anyone else, and you don't end up with a "pretty nice reduction in code", you're in sad, sad shape.
- jrockway 18y agoIt is easy to allow plugins, themes, and easy installation without resorting to Wordpress' horrible architecture.
- midnightmonster 18y agoNo kidding. My point was that the line count difference is probably not principally a matter of Wordpress being terrible or PHP being inferior to Clojure, but mainly of having a radically simpler feature set.
- jrockway 18y agoYes, definitely. Now that I think about it, your point is especially relevant in light of the examples the article chooses.