[akadruid1]

Wordpress is clunky but it never broke backwards compatibility.

HN grumbles about Drupal because many got burnt by picking the wrong horse. Drupal was the biggest CMS in the world and like a safe bet until they told their users they would have to rewrite their 7 code to go to 8 and their users decided they would rewrite to WordPress[1]. Drupal never regained the trust they lost. They extended the life of d7 over and over but never made a compelling replacement. To this day, 7 is still more widely deployed than 8,9 or 10 ever were[2].

I think it's interesting to observe the fate that Python 3 narrowly avoided. Python 3 wasn't a compelling replacement until at least 3.5. In a nearly parallel universe they're all using torch.rb instead of pytorch.

[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/did-breaking-backward...

[2]https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

[tylershuster]

That's a fair argument. Maybe I'm just biased because I started with Drupal 8.

[Nectar0516]

Honestly, py3 wasn't a compelling replacement until distros started setting dates to remove py2.