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I have been a longtime PHP avoider myself, but I just recently installed Wordpress for the first time and I admit to being impressed by a few things. One is th
by damon_c 13y ago
I have been a longtime PHP avoider myself, but I just recently installed Wordpress for the first time and I admit to being impressed by a few things.
One is the fact that because of the implementation of PHP, where I assume a totally new process is created for every web request, a PHP app can actually edit itself and emerge different for the next incoming request.
Because of this, Wordpress has amazing features where non technical users can install plugins and even edit the source code of Wordpress, in Wordpress... This would not be as easily done in any of the various reputable languages I'm aware of... at least not in the standard implementations of those languages.
- awestroke 13y agoPlugin support is not something that is exclusive, or even easily implemented, in PHP. Compiled languages with Lua bindings does this better, with the benefit of very easy sandboxing. Ghost (https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/) is a more mainstream example, and it has plugin support. As someone who has developed wordpress themes, the plugin support in wordpress is a gigantic source of frustration. It is not amazing under the hood.