In summary: WordPress has a neat dashboard, thousands of plugins, and wonderful themes. Writing and maintaining a blogging app is boring. I prefer to spend my time blogging and programming, rather than programming admin dashboards for blogging apps.
People will tell you that WordPress is slow, which is true. To remedy the situation, you should: (1) use a PHP opcode cache (I use php-apc) and (2) use a caching plugin (I use W3 Total Cache). That's about it.
I'm quite happy with my setup. It's not the fastest or the hippest, but it works great for my blogging needs. My advice would be to choose whatever makes you happy, and then stick with it.
In summary: WordPress has a neat dashboard, thousands of plugins, and wonderful themes. Writing and maintaining a blogging app is boring. I prefer to spend my time blogging and programming, rather than programming admin dashboards for blogging apps.
People will tell you that WordPress is slow, which is true. To remedy the situation, you should: (1) use a PHP opcode cache (I use php-apc) and (2) use a caching plugin (I use W3 Total Cache). That's about it.
I'm quite happy with my setup. It's not the fastest or the hippest, but it works great for my blogging needs. My advice would be to choose whatever makes you happy, and then stick with it.