WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

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On 2024-08-01 14:34, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Javascript is morphing into a universal assembly language / portable 
> intermediate language for web-based needs. It’s also used on an 
> increasing number of back-end services. It’s not exclusively for Ajax 
> any more.
> 
> I use something called TMS WEB Core that uses the pas2js transpiler to 
> compile Delphi/Object Pascal into js that lets you build web apps 
> within the Delphi IDE written in Object Pascal, and it runs inside the 
> web browser. They had to add some (very welcome) tweaks to the OP 
> language to deal with async issues, but it’s really cool and very easy 
> to work with. I can’t say if Delphi itself is growing, but it works 
> with FreePascal and Lazarus as well.
> 
> They have a new feature in beta that provides a full live HTML editor 
> within the Delph IDE that will make it a LOT easier to do fully 
> responsive UI design using HTML4 and CSS.
> 
> -David Schwartz
> 
> 


How does Delphi, and others, deal with the quirkiness of JS - each 
browser interprets JS just a little different?



> 
> 
>> On Aug 1, 2024, at 1:43 PM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss 
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:31:09 -0700
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I read that WordPress is on a 10 year plan to move away from PHP and
>>> become all JavaScript.
>>> 
>>> Anyone aware of this?
>> 
>> 1. I wasn't aware of it.
>> 2. Why????
>> 3. If it will take 10 years, is it really worth it? And 10 years from
>>   now, might Javascript be considered old and not so good? I know a
>>   lot of people who don't like Javascript, some people disable
>>   Javascript, and some people use browsers that don't do Javascript.
>> 
>> 
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