Movable Type back on the march?
I wonder whether there are any indices yet, as to whether the newish wondrous free Movable Type is making any dent in the supremacy of WP…
The pro nay-sayers, of which I would never consider myself one, have as their convention wisdom that 2.5 was the inevitable disaster - what goes up, must come down - the trickle away will surely become a flood…
Also noteworthy, perhaps, is mention already of WP 2.6 and the enhanced function set etc etc. Some of us would like a go first at evaluating 2.5.1 at a visible screen resolution and without odd errors output to the page in the widgets admin.
June 5, 2008
2:11 am
Austin said
I recently scraped the sites listed in Technorati’s main categories, and found about 34% self-identified as WordPress-powered, and about 5% as Movable Type. Unfortunately, I don’t know the numbers prior to MT’s releasing its GPL version.
I also have a guess that MT, even as open source, will see less community development than other applications simply because it’s written in Perl, and Perl is not as hot among today’s web developers as is PHP, Ruby on Rails, or Python. It’s unfortunate, too, because Perl is a great language for the web.
June 5, 2008
9:55 am
Lewis said
All good points - and presumably there’s another 34% of WordPress with links removed…
And point taken on Perl, although it’s not great for the boring, repetitive, low-tech db querying that builds the average CMS. Why no viable Ruby/Rails blog software? - lack of widespread server support, or is this chicken and egg…