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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
(techcrunch.com)
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Wordpress is a pile of decades old php code* that is held together with string and tape pretty much.
*php isn't the problem itself, modern php is actually pretty nice.
I'll take your word for it. Apparently tumblr and WordPress (and WordPress.com) are owned by the same company, so this change would make sense to reduce maintenance workload.
WordPress core is pretty wild. But modern WordPress isn't working purely in that. The latest WP uses PHP primarily as a backend, and modern JS as a frontend and passing data through filters->DB.
I won't call it elegant. But it's not the PHP experience from five years ago.
And despite all that it's likely that the Tumblr backend might be even worse.