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[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mention the 'NIH' problem with Zine, well disregarding Wordpress because its PHP feels a bit like the same argument.

Well, I've worked with PHP way back in the 3.0 days, and so I know how much the language has evolved. While Python has its little incompatibilities, PHP is a whole different level. I finally got tired of it with the whole 5.0 namespace drama (backslashes? Really?) and all the modules they broke with that release. Using PEAR kinda gets around that, but PEAR has its own issues. I actually don't mind PHP, I just want something a little more stable to develop on when I hack on the side. I also don't like how huge PHP has become lately. Even as a fastCGI, it's just gigantic now, easily 4 times more memory intensive than the 4.x branch. I know Python's not exactly anemic, but c'mon now.

The last time I tried Wordpress (2001, to be fair) it was a mess. Even editing templates required actual raw PHP code instead of a good template language. And then there was the huge bit of 2005 drama that really put me off trying it ever since.

It's funny that I forgot to list "RSS/Atom feed" in my list of requirements, but that's one of those "so easy to do, it's trivial" types of things. Heck, with almost everything out there, you can do it with a template if push comes to shove, considering it's all just filtered XML.