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EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Impressive and created by agents. Another example for skeptics wondering where the AI apps are.

I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.

This will largely be based on the maintainers’ priorities. Coding agents can audit and clean up code too, provided that you set the right goals.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. Is this April fools? With real products launching on this date you can't really be too sure.

> Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. It's not illegal to make product comparisons. That's just competition.

Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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I don't think it's the code that makes WordPress valuable. I've been learning WordPress recently and haven't been too impressed with the internals. WordPress is valuable because of the ecosystem and support. I have no doubt that WordPress will still be a thing in ten years. What's the support plan for EmDash? I see commits are mostly from a single developer. E: Oh, I think it's an April fools joke, I'm embarrassed. E…

There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also thttps://textpattern.org/ ).

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

#45

Impressive and created by agents. Another example for skeptics wondering where the AI apps are.

I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.

I too have seen a lot of comments asking where the products are. If you're now moving the goal posts to "stay online in the long run" you're gonna have to wait until there's been a long run to stay online in. Agents aren't that old yet.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

#46
I'm all for creating new frameworks that are faster and more secure. But I don't see how this one relates to Wordpress (not in PHP, serverless, not "plug and play", dependent on Astro, "AI Native"…).

It looks like a good open source project, but just call it a new CMS. I think calling it a "spiritual successor to WordPress" is just to gain some marketing points.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

#47

I don't think it's the code that makes WordPress valuable. I've been learning WordPress recently and haven't been too impressed with the internals. WordPress is valuable because of the ecosystem and support. I have no doubt that WordPress will still be a thing in ten years. What's the support plan for EmDash? I see commits are mostly from a single developer. E: Oh, I think it's an April fools joke, I'm embarrassed. E…

There might be pie on your face but they stole my line, https://github.com/HatmanStack/kill-wordpress

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

#49

I don't think it's the code that makes WordPress valuable. I've been learning WordPress recently and haven't been too impressed with the internals. WordPress is valuable because of the ecosystem and support. I have no doubt that WordPress will still be a thing in ten years. What's the support plan for EmDash? I see commits are mostly from a single developer. E: Oh, I think it's an April fools joke, I'm embarrassed. E…

Cloudflare doesn't do April fools jokes. In fact, 1.1.1.1 was released on April 1st back in 2018 and now it's one of the most used DNS service in the world.

Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

#50
It's a shame they don't seem to try to address the divide between CMS's and static sites.

Most WordPress sites could just be static, but WordPress has a nice editor interface, so they're not - unless you use a SSG plugin. Building that into the core workflow (which I believe Astro supports) and giving users a nice hosted editor that produces a static site would be welcome innovation.

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