EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by allknowingfrog » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

squidbeak wrote: post #15

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.

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

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Post by benob » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

jmkni wrote: post #18

It's kind of ironic that the name of this product is also the most obvious marker of LLM generated content

"That allows us to license the open source project under the more permissive MIT license."

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

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Post by OJFord » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

quantummagic wrote: post #16

rvz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's not unusual though, large companies releasing something open source very often squash the history at launch.

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

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Post by mrcwinn » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

It’s written in typescript, not PHP. How does this improve security if no one uses it because they’ve invested so much in the WP plugin ecosystem?

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

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Post by george_perez » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

quantummagic wrote: post #16

rvz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cloudflare specifically launches things on April 1st a lot of times. https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1907055975057506793

They announced 1.1.1.1 on April 1st way back in 2018 too.

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

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Post by pxtail » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

Good one, at last, April fools joke with some effort.

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

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Post by 8organicbits » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

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.

E2: Apparently not a joke.

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

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Post by yeah879846 » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

"Failed to initialize playground"

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

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Post by ramesh31 » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

I really hope Cloudflare is ready and willing to stand by this thing for the next 20 years, and drive it as a first class product with a huge open source team. Because short of that you can just add this to the mile-long list of "successors to WordPress" we've been through over the decades. Maybe they're in it for the long haul. We'll see. But it takes time, and mountains of integrations and acceptance into the wider web authoring ecosystem for anything like this to gain real adoption.

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

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

Held up getting into the details of this ambitious project because of the name! Ridiculous choice considering the associations with AI, slop, and even the general crowded namespace surrounding that. C'mon.

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