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This is nonsense - there's nothing about a Node.js re-write in the 4.3 kickoff post: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/28/wordpress-4-3-kic...
Came here to say the same!
Is this a late April 1st joke? I don't see anything even suggesting this on wordpress.org
Looking at the rest of the site, it's full of clickbait garbage. I would definitely take this with a bit of salt, or perhaps as some kind of performance art.
Assuming this isn't a hoax - I have mixed feelings. I'm currently no fan of either the Wordpress or PHP ecosystems - or much of the javascript one.

Whether this will bring some well-needed streamlining into the multitude of options in the js world or not is hard to predict.

Whether the PHP/Wordpress community will tolerate the added complexity - or whether that complexity can be magic'ed away is also hard to predict.

Wouldn't Go give much better performance and safety? Are the benefits of node.js worth the transition?

A discussion from last year on Reddit for Go vs node.js web servers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1ye3z6/go_vs_nodejs...

looks like april fools, but nearly a month late. The mentioned php2node repo doesn't even exist.
>a complete rejection of PHP in the near future is not planned to WordPress

It's just a side project, probably to get more people thinking what could be done in Wordpress. Maybe more people will do something to the core of Wordpress outside of extensions if it's in Javascript-ish.

I was hoping for Node.js to become the new PHP (in a good way). Nice to see it happening.
it's a joke right ?

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