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Strongly agree. Wordpress brags as powering whatever % of the internet... but if youve ever taken a look at some of that PHP source code... yikes

Mind boggling to me such an overly complex system has such a large market share.

I'll take my Gatsby TypeScript React components / <<insert your favorite static site generator here>> any day




If they calculated the % in terms of CPU time used, they could have made the claim even more impressive.


Depends if you only include server CPU time or also browser CPU time. With the latter, more "modern" frameworks will "win" by orders of magnitude.


Technical purity does not win business. Solutions do. WP has delivered a rich ecosystem that lets normal people put content on the web. Even if it annoys programmers at its technical debt.




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