Modules Unraveled Podcast

081 Backdrop and Drupal8 discussion with Jen Lampton Nate Haug John Albin Wilkins and Alex Bronstein - Modules Unraveled Podcast

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## Backdrop * What is a fork?             * It’s open source, folks! Forks happen! * Why are you forking Drupal? * My initial reaction was that you were starting it because you didn’t want to have to learn all of the new technology being used in D8, and therefore were cornering yourselves in the past... and I thought that eventually, you’d be so far behind, that learning “current technology” would be so cumbersome that you’d just stop learning and improving. I’m sure others are thinking the same thing, so how would you respond to that? * Is the Backdrop fork solely to enable developers comfortable with the current Drupal coding practices to be able to continue working with tools they already know? * What is D8 doing wrong, in your opinion? * What is D8 doing right, in your opinion? * Why are you personally going to use Backdrop instead of D8? Or, will you use both? ## Drupal 8 * I’ve heard a lot about performance. Some say it’s faster than D7, some say it’s slower... What’s the deal? Are some parts faster,