That's the crucial question. Because the important parameter to "what is best ?" isn't the "day and age", but the exact use-case, and to lesser extent, requirements, existing stacks, team capabilities etc etc.
If you have a company with 58 wordpress instances, then I'm pretty sure the best option for almost any use-case for the 59th instance is "wordpress".
But if you are an artist that makes and sells bracelets from local sea-shells, with little interest in learning technical stuff, you are almost certainly better of with an etsy and/or shopify. If only for the TCO.
And the bakery around the corner who just needs their opening hours and some nice impression in the form of a video, story and some images (brochureware) online, wix, squarespace or one of its many (open source) competitors.
Or, if you just need a quick three-page landingpage for your tech startup, in a team of mostly software engineers, a hugo or jekyll site is quite probably by far preferable.
There are so many alternatives that "do one thing and do it well (or better than the generalists without focus)". It's really about having the ability to filter through these instead.
For what?
That's the crucial question. Because the important parameter to "what is best ?" isn't the "day and age", but the exact use-case, and to lesser extent, requirements, existing stacks, team capabilities etc etc.
If you have a company with 58 wordpress instances, then I'm pretty sure the best option for almost any use-case for the 59th instance is "wordpress".
But if you are an artist that makes and sells bracelets from local sea-shells, with little interest in learning technical stuff, you are almost certainly better of with an etsy and/or shopify. If only for the TCO.
And the bakery around the corner who just needs their opening hours and some nice impression in the form of a video, story and some images (brochureware) online, wix, squarespace or one of its many (open source) competitors. Or, if you just need a quick three-page landingpage for your tech startup, in a team of mostly software engineers, a hugo or jekyll site is quite probably by far preferable.
There are so many alternatives that "do one thing and do it well (or better than the generalists without focus)". It's really about having the ability to filter through these instead.
That’s refreshingly sensible advice.
Thanks for that. It’s spot-on.