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half the style guide is taken up with nonsense about tabs and spaces, ridiculous requirements on conditionals, and what seems to be a lack of decent SDLC.

I keep waiting for WP to die and it never does.

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I've given up on it dying. It's too entrenched. It does what it needs to in a way that isn't awful for the end user, and the barrier of entry is so low that developers are cheap and plentiful. And it's old enough that the ecosystem is really broad and can do what 99% of people require.

It's all awful code, of course.

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