[TYPO3-english] choosing typo3

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Cameron wrote:
> Drupal is superior to Typo3 in almost every way. Typo3 is an exercise in
> over-engineered academic CMS concepts, whereas Drupal + CCK + Views = 90% of
> any website you would actually end up putting together for a client.

I agree with these points. You do not have to forget that TYPO3 was an
experiement of a single man, who wished to push his own development
boundaries as far as he could. Then suddenly it because a widely adopted
CMS :) TYPO3 father's intentions became intentions of other TYPO3
developers.

While TYPO3 is definitely a playground for developers, it is a very
powerful and flexible platform for any kind of development. Drupal does
not have that power and it is far more limited. Everything comes at its
cost: TYPO3 power comes with complexity, Drupal's simplicity comes with
more limits.

> Typoscript is quite literally the most insane thing I have seen in 14 years
> of my career in the IT industry.

Well, it means it is not your's, that's all. Personally I think that
Perl is a crazy people nightmare> I can never learn it. But I saw many
people who can code wonderful things in Perl in their sleep. Everyone
gets what he can. There is no need to call it insane just because you do
not understand it :)

> The other MAJOR issue, and one that seals it completely for me, is that the
> community around Drupal is 50 times the size of the Typo3 one. What this
> means is that any problem you have, the solution is a Google search away.

TYPO3 is a German CMS these days. You can find lots of answers in
German. There are attempts to make the same for English speaking TYPO3
users (such as my blog) but they have certain problems. There are no
resources to make them larger and have more information.

> The same simply does not apply for Typo3. Any CMS is going to take you a
> month or so to really get up to speed with, but with Drupal you'll find the
> perfect balance between flexibility and functionality. With Typo3 you'll be
> battling this arcane, lunatic bloody Typoscript system and not being able to
> find anyone to help.

This statement is fully false.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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