Improving the beginner experience (for developers, contributors, and end-users).Ease-of-use and total cost of ownership (especially, difficult major version upgrades).
The Drupal community identified a few key areas that drove this sentiment among the developers and end-users surveyed: Graphic used with permission from Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. It's telling that only the expert level users have a positive impression of the clarity of using Drupal and would generally recommend it to others.
A sentiment survey of Drupal and other open source and proprietary CMSs found that Drupal's most negative sentiment comes from beginning users, but that sentiment becomes increasingly positive with users' expertise on the platform. We could try to shrug this off as simply a result of how widely used Drupal is, but we have better data than that. The elePHPant in the roomĪs I write this post, I'm cognizant that Drupal has the infamous distinction of having earned the place of second Most Dreaded Web Framework in Stack Overflow's 2020 developer survey, and PHP, the underlying language it is written in, is sixth on the Most Dreaded language list.Ĭertainly that's not a badge that any open source community would wear with pride-so what is it about Drupal 9 that makes it worth a second look? But if that's the image in your head when you think about Drupal, it's time to take another look. For many developers, 'CMS' conjures specters of the late 2000s-a decade in which Internet Explorer still held 65% of browser market share, the HTML5 specification had not yet been proposed, Git was just establishing dominance in the VCS space, and jQuery was the JavaScript library de rigeur.
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This post is written by Tim Lehnen, the Chief Technology Officer of the Drupal Association (501c3), the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the Drupal software project, fostering the community, and supporting its growth.ĭrupal 9 has just been released, and the open source CMS is approaching its 20th year.
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