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Wordpress is/was successful because it's braindead and has a solid userbase. I am not to flame WP, but it's a quality to target a specific group of consumers.

It's an organic success, hard to replicate. If at all, CF can only make people migrate with massive effort. Marketing effort, selling lots of snake oil in the process. WP wont just hop on the hot new thing, WP is the definition of the opposite. It works for them. Why change.

Git is the same on the other side. It requires maintenance and improvements, surgical and correct. No git maintainer has time to learn a gigantic new codebase and they will stick with what works for them. For git users there are no advantages. So similarly it would require a long time effort to push the project, building trust that it is somehow better, probably requiring Linus to say "it's great".



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