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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by busterarm on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:35AM (#11676232)
It's all about how you prioritize the problems you need to solve.

At my current job we primarily use Wordpress. Why Wordpress? Because we have a large and non-technical content team, 260+ websites and several tens of thousands of pages of content that need to go up quickly.

We're just 4 developers - about 1 for every 8 content & marketing people we have. We spend very little of our time on frontend. Tell me that you're going to get that kind of leverage with another tool.

Wordpress is just about the last thing that you would pick as a developer or ops person to base your tech stack, but in our case it is the right choice.

Aside: Coming from Rails and having spent six months deep in Wordpress core, it's actually kind of awesome. Seemingly every problem is solvable.

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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by kennell on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:38PM (#11679052)
Comparing Rails and Wordpress seems like apples and oranges to me. Rails is a framework that lets you build anything web-app-ish, while Wordpress has its well defined, rather limited use cases. If it works for you, great, but the scenarios are different.
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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by busterarm on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:51AM (#11684288)
That's not the point of what I was saying.

I'm making a point that Wordpress is also "yesterday's software" and there's nothing wrong with making that choice.

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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by askyourmother on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:40PM (#11677441)
WordPress is a pretty crazy codebase, yet, it seems sane compared to Rails. Interesting that WordPress as a service are moving to a node.js backend from PHP - even they chase shiny too
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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by btdiehr on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:01PM (#11677654)
Is it not an advantage for average users to be able to do both the front end and back end knowing only a single language?
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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by askyourmother on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:11PM (#11677747)
The same advantage as just using a screwdriver to handle nails and screws? No. Right tool on the server (hint: it's not JS nor node), right tool on the client (JS if needs must)
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Re:After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to ... by busterarm on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:43PM (#11677467)
Do you know of any decent (modern stack) WPaaS besides Pantheon?
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