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by dragonwriter
2012 days ago
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> Hence why PHP is still the leading language for eCommerce, where fashion gives way to tight margins and hiring talent for a decade long lived piece of software is a major concern. I don't think the forces that resemble fashion are any less applicable to e-commerce. > When cost is the driving factor for most decisions, and ROI is a very real and measured metric, convincing someome to rewrite their money making machine to keep up with the latest in tech is a hard sell. Convincing people to rewrite systems without (and even often with) changing needs that the old system seems to brittle to accommodate is hard everywhere, even when ROI isn't clearly measurable; that's why so much established software in government (as well as other places) still runs on COBOL. The shifting preferences in development that look like fashion are evident, even in those domains where there is lots of established software that is sticky, in greenfield development. |
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Definitely agree, greenfields projects are where you get an opportunity to suggest new technology.
What I find in eCommerce though is the people who make the decisions on this stuff move around from company to company like pollinating bees, and they always want what they had before, which is often WooCommerce. It's a matter of user interface and ecosystem. They don't care about the merits of the technology underneath, it's truly not a concern for them, what they want is to be able to load up the Yoast SEO plugin and check their copywriters work, or have their in house guy make popups with whatever popup maker they had last time.
I think that's why it's so hard to kill it off.