While I find that even WordPress has improved a lot and they have a reasonable product roadmap for upcoming core development, this software remains tied to its past. In theory, you can use WordPress with PHP 5, and some people do so in practice, bound by some outdated plugins, while other plugins will break your whole site when you're below PHP 7.4.
Even worse, as a plugin developer, you might want to consider all of those cases, outdated core versions, outdated PHP versions, plugins depending on other plugins etc.
WordPress managed to ship a product that runs both ReactJS (in the backend for Gutenberg block editor) and jQuery (in the frontend, at least many sites do) at the same time, and you are free to extend, use and abuse it with plugins that you can place in the official store without risking a too critical review.
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While I find that even WordPress has improved a lot and they have a reasonable product roadmap for upcoming core development, this software remains tied to its past. In theory, you can use WordPress with PHP 5, and some people do so in practice, bound by some outdated plugins, while other plugins will break your whole site when you're below PHP 7.4.
Even worse, as a plugin developer, you might want to consider all of those cases, outdated core versions, outdated PHP versions, plugins depending on other plugins etc.
WordPress managed to ship a product that runs both ReactJS (in the backend for Gutenberg block editor) and jQuery (in the frontend, at least many sites do) at the same time, and you are free to extend, use and abuse it with plugins that you can place in the official store without risking a too critical review.
Thanks for the article! I like your writing style as well!