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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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post #100

Serious question: Who actually builds stuff on Cloudflare workers? I mean large software projects / services, and not just side projects where the ability to scale-to-zero is perhaps more important than the scale-to-infinity direction. I feel like Cloudflare keeps pushing workers with its full force yet I fail to see the appeal.

It's always seemed like a solution looking for a problem.

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

#133
Will you look at it. Another Wordpress “killer”. Wordpress has that market share because it can be easily installed in a wide variety of servers and because of its plugin ecosystem of dozens of thousands of plugins and huge flexibility/customizability. Wordpress is one of the most flexible pieces of software out there and none of the competition seem to get why Wordpress is so popular.

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

#134
post #36

The power of WordPress is not the ease of use, but PHP. Anything built on PHP will be widely used, like Laravel

That used to be a major selling point because hosts enabled PHP for a directory devs would FTP things into, but those days are thankfully long gone. I don't think it's any more difficult to host a JS, TS, or anything else, app than it is to host a PHP app today. In fact, PHP is probably more difficult than something like Netlify.

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

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Convince me this isn’t vibeslop. If Cloudflare really have radically changed their software development philosophy lately, this would actually be an interesting project, being based on Astro and coming with some APIs for programmatic management. Them being so happy about the „cost of software development“ and not going very deep into ecosystem, community or project management doesn’t convince me that this is going to…

I'm the main engineer on this. I've also been on the Astro core team for two years, so I do think I understand real open source software and community. As the post implies, I did use a lot of agent time on this, but this isn't a vibe-coded weekend project. I've been working full time on this since mid-January.

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

#136
post #100

Serious question: Who actually builds stuff on Cloudflare workers? I mean large software projects / services, and not just side projects where the ability to scale-to-zero is perhaps more important than the scale-to-infinity direction. I feel like Cloudflare keeps pushing workers with its full force yet I fail to see the appeal.

I'm building a commercial SaaS product on Workers. Although I've barely scratched the surface of what Cloudflare offers¹, so far it's been great. The value proposition is effectively the same as serverless in general: You worry about the product, they worry about deployment. Note that Cloudflare Workers is just one (albeit important) star in their constellation of capabilities.

¹https://developers.cloudflare.com/directory/?product-group=D...

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

#139

Convince me this isn’t vibeslop. If Cloudflare really have radically changed their software development philosophy lately, this would actually be an interesting project, being based on Astro and coming with some APIs for programmatic management. Them being so happy about the „cost of software development“ and not going very deep into ecosystem, community or project management doesn’t convince me that this is going to…

I'm the main engineer on this. I've also been on the Astro core team for two years, so I do think I understand real open source software and community. As the post implies, I did use a lot of agent time on this, but this isn't a vibe-coded weekend project. I've been working full time on this since mid-January.

will all my custom Wordpress themes and plugins run on EmDash?

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

#140
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue with static sites is they can't do comments.

They can - it’s just more complex. You just put the comments into something like firebase/supabase etc or use one of many off the shelf solutions. Free tier is fine.

Is it still a static site then?

You could just do it with CGI scripts, without the external dependencies, but that isn't really static either.

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