Every year some people write about the decline of PHP and Drupal but the opposite seems true.
I hear more people are coming from Javascript ecosystems and its neverending "Yet another javascript framework" to PHP.
PHP has been running more than 79 procent of the INTERNET (try to get that in your head).
The Wordpress community is trembling to its foundations (there's a conflict going on with lawsuits).
Drupal is stable, continuing and we'll gladly adopt the people that come for a long term site building experience.The drupal motto "Come for the software, stay for the community"resonates more than ever.
Dries's enthousiasm about Starshot (now Drupal CMS) has not waned. And I think rightly so.
If Drupal recipes delivers on it's promise, a lot of site recipes will be created and Drupal will become accessible to even more people. Also, with webassembly it will be easier than ever to start up a Drupal system.
I'm sceptic about Starshot (now Drupal CMS) but it has certainly the potential to be as good/popular as D7 was in it's prime.
Why Starshot?
Starshot make Drupal easy to use and available for non technical people (like marketeers or site builders). It's a continuation of the no-code approach to application building that drupal has since it's early days.
Ambitous goals!
Dries also expressed the ambitous goal for Drupal CMS. It would be done by the end of the year, that's also why Dries freed up his agenda to work on it himself. He has also a large team working on it too. I think Stef noticed correctly he has a renewed energy working on Drupal things.
To give you an idea on how ambitious the goals really are:
The next milestone is DrupalCon Singapore, taking place from December 9–11, 2024, less than 3 months away. We hope to have a release candidate ready by then.
The launch plan targets Drupal CMS's release on Drupal's upcoming birthday: January 15, 2025.