WordPress 4.3 will be rewritten in Node.js

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...

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...

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 ?