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Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday, 23 November 2015
Big moves are coming to WordPress.com as the CEO responsible for powering 25 percent of the world’s websites unveils an open sourcing of the company’s code and API endpoints. Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress developer Automattic, has taken to his blog to outline the project, codenamed Calypso, which is the product of 20 months’ work by 127 engineers and designers. Unveiling the new, pure JavaScript platform that uses libraries like Node and React to offer a fully responsive Web experience, Mullenweg admitted that this was the missing key to WordPress being able to ‘disrupt itself’: Many of us attempted to give it a reboot with the MP6…
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