WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

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On 2024-07-31 13:10, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I can't find anything about this, however I will say that _the_ reason
> why Wordpress is as ubiquitous as it has been is because:
> 
> 	* It's easy to use, but possibly more importantly...
> 
> 	* The backend is entirely written in PHP
> 
> Specifically #2 has allowed it to proliferate on cheap shared hosting
> sites that still today mostly only allow PHP. If you want to run
> NodeJS, Ruby, or other backends, you're generally limited to more
> expensive hosts for that such as Heroku or just running it yourself on
> a VPS. But those options are never going to be as easy as clicking
> "Install Wordpress" on a cPanel host that costs $2/month.
> 
> _If_ wordpress does migrate away from PHP, I'd imagine someone or a
> group of people will come along to fork the last pure PHP version and
> "the community" will largely continue on with that fork, rather than
> "upgrading" to the non-PHP version.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024, at 12:59 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via
> PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 
>> I recall hearing about this a few months back, although I'm not
>> certain if when.
>> 
>> I, personally, don't like JS -- and I am frustrated how more and
>> more of Web 3.0 or whatever version they say were on now is wholly
>> dependent on JS.
>> 
>> I think XKCD nailed it on the head, as they most often do ...
>> https://xkcd.com/2347/
>> 
>> --
>> 

Had not thought of a fork.... nice idea.

As for JS I assume that mean most of the processing has to be done in 
the browser which means everything needs to travel from the server to 
the browser?

Am I right on this?   If I am that does not sound good.

Keith



>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Alexander
>> 
>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 08:31 Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I read that WordPress is on a 10 year plan to move away from PHP
>>> and
>>> 
>>> become all JavaScript.
>>> 
>>> Anyone aware of this?
>>> 
>>> Keith
>>> 
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