A Replacement for PHP

I asked Quora for ideas for how a replacement PHP might look. On the whole people are not enthusiastic. Alexander Tchitchigin had an interesting answer, but which focused on the basic theme of “once we move away from PHP’s weaknesses, we might as well use any language. Which prompted me to write this comment elaborating …

The new WordPress is Calypso?

Source: Are You Affected By WordPress Calypso? | PJ Brunet | LinkedIn Brunet thinks it’s not going to affect free WP users. Maybe. What would, I think, be a radical move, would be to recreate the PHP model with node.js. That is, rather like VB.NET embedded VB and JSP embedded Java in HTML templates, to …

WordPress.com and App for Mac

Did WordPress just translate itself to node.js? Big question, will they also open-source this code-base for users to host on their own sites? If so, this is probably the beginning of the end for PHP? WP is certainly the only PHP application I run. And probably the most widely used PHP program in the wild. …