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.
Not an April fools joke. [0]
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
#12> Our name for this new CMS is EmDash. We think of it as the spiritual successor to WordPress. It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with the WordPress plugin architecture. And under the hood, EmDash is power…
Reminds me of Vercel and NextJS, where a popular framework design is constrained by, or optimally runs, on their infra, but then comes with pains or unusualness if self-hosted (eg. middleware). Vendor lock-in plays are a big red flag
Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
#13Yes 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.
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#14Here to say -- great name. It's not just a reference to our modern times, it's a sign of brilliance. (I wrote this myself with no clanker support)
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#15Impressive and created by agents. Another example for skeptics wondering where the AI apps are.
Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
#16Yes 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.
Not an April fools joke. [0] [0] https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
That makes it look more like an April fools joke. All the commits are from today.
Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
#17Its kind of annoying that CF would use an LLM to build something and try to pass it off as something built from "the ground up". Its just copying the library that was already build and passing it off as their own.
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#18It's kind of ironic that the name of this product is also the most obvious marker of LLM generated content
Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
#19The UI doesn't seem geared to power users. E.g. Why is the featured image taking up so much space above the content editing area when it's sized appropriately for the sidebar? Imagine you need to update the text of several posts... Well, now you gotta scroll down half the page to the content area of each one.
And all that padding gets you quite the narrow content area. Not to mention it looks like a very basic TinyMCE. Seems like more of a POC than an actual "spiritual successor".
Re: EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
#20> Our name for this new CMS is EmDash. We think of it as the spiritual successor to WordPress. It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with the WordPress plugin architecture. And under the hood, EmDash is power…
The question is then they'd be building some brand new thing not compatible with wordpress. Supposedly the proposition is to steal people away from wordpress. Not just get people building something from scratch looking for a new framework. I'm guessing the recent lawsuits also provide some momentum.