Spacefast creator here. We are trying very hard to discover new ways to build with WordPress. We are calling that project Zero, and Spacefast is the first place with support for it. Most of this vision is not very visible yet, because we don’t want to make a big noise before we know where it’s going. As a community and as a project, we need to try new things and see if they work out and we can’t be stuck in our ways. More and more people will build on the web and they all deserve to build and publish on the web with the same ease and freedom WordPress gave all of us for years. WordPress is core to everything we are doing at Automattic and Spacefast, and just because we are trying out new ideas doesn’t make it less defendable. If it wasn’t defendable, we wouldn’t be building on it. Everything related to WordPress and the Spacefast runtime will be open source and well documented, and will run elsewhere. No vendor lock-in, ever. Not every host will be supported but everyone will be free to add support. For context, we use a lot of TypeScript and Rust in the flavor of WordPress we are building, and have a higher PHP version requirement. It’s not yet reached a stage where I am comfortable bragging about it. We are constantly experimenting every day. I don’t know if this take will be successful, I would be happy if it inspires people to take WordPress into new, exciting places. How software is built is changing, and WordPress doesn’t seem to be the best fit for some portion of how people build today and new sites coming online. CMS ecosystem in general is experiencing this and it’s not a WordPress problem. We need to explore. WordPress isn’t just a thing, it’s a movement, it’s a collection of ideals, it’s a community. Shape of the thing might evolve, doesn’t make it less WordPress.

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