Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
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Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#2Apparently spell-check is also a dead technology.
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#3The developer hostility in this is astounding.
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#4While this article may be correct on a few points, the idea that Magento should bundle every feature under the sun is silly. That is what the module marketplace is meant to provide. And even some of the features tagged as missing ARE provided in the Enterprise Edition if you are inclined to pay for a license.
I think the bigger issue with Magento 2.0 is the missed opportunity to use the backward compatibility breakage to clean out some of the horrible bits of home-grown code in Magento and replace them with 3rd party libraries.
If anything, I think Magento should actually drop features from core and become a solid platform for others to build upon.
EDIT: Speeling :)
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#5Every single little thing he mentioned shouldn't be in the core product. Magento is not an all in one marketing, shop and aftersale solution; it is an eCommerce platform. Anything above/beyond that should be a plugin/separate solution.
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#6Every single little thing he mentioned shouldn't be in the core product. Magento is not an all in one marketing, shop and aftersale solution; it is an eCommerce platform. Anything above/beyond that should be a plugin/separate solution.
I 100% agree with this.
I honestly think Magento should basically drop almost every core 'feature' and just become a rock-solid platform to build upon.
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#7I havent looked at it recently, but the code used to be awful, which is perhaps where the rewrite comes in. But giant PHP applications with even more features are not really the future, these things need to be built as sets of APIs and libraries that you can put together to add the features you want (which are complex).
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#8I havent looked at it recently, but the code used to be awful, which is perhaps where the rewrite comes in. But giant PHP applications with even more features are not really the future, these things need to be built as sets of APIs and libraries that you can put together to add the features you want (which are complex).
It is indeed still awful. I know someone who works in Magento and they frequently come to me with genuine WTF bits of code. Added functionality would be a nightmare.
A rewrite is sorely needed, and will help developers who have to work with and on Magento to save their bosses time and money.
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#9Half of points aren't true, for some other there are extensions in Magento Connect...
Re: Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code
#10The developer hostility in this is astounding.
Yeah, seriously. The entitlement. My favorite was
> automated SEO using artificial intelligence;