I don't get how Gatsby, Github Pages are content management systems?
Also, this looks like a bleak picture for the JAMStack if Wordpress keeps growing no?
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> Also, this looks like a bleak picture for the JAMStack if Wordpress keeps growing no?
The JAMStack has a usability problem. That's why wordpress keeps growing. What do i need for wordpress? some cheap(maybe even free) webspace and a database. updates to the wordpress core are quite simple doable via webinterface. done. with this even the biggest simpleton can write blogposts.
with a jam stack? headless cmses, blogposts written in markdown, config in "frontmatter", building and deploying your blog, versioning via git, not even a litte autocomplete. even i recommend wordpress because i have not the time and nerves to teach non-it people to use the JAMStack.
Wordpress seems like a great end to end solution for people who don't want to write their own CMS or bother with command line tools and complicated setup. There a lot of CMS tools out there but wordpress hits the sweetspot of wide variety of hosting & managed solutions, high customizability, and ease of use for non technical users.
I got rid of it on my own website some time ago but the startup I'm with still uses it. It's great; doesn't need my attention and our marketing people can deal with content. I'll likely transition it over to a managed solution at some point but beyond that I don't have the bandwidth to building and maintaining a new company website.
Not necessarily, at least JAMStack front-end frameworks like Next and Gatsby can co-exist with Wordpress because headless support from WP.
That said, newer CMS's have their work cut out for them.
> Not necessarily, at least JAMStack front-end frameworks like Next and Gatsby can co-exist with Wordpress because headless support from WP.
Sure, but no-one but very technical minded people would pick those instead of just WP. It's just extra complexity which you don't need when you start a blog or a shop or something like that. I would have a hard time defending it unless in very specific situations; wp is just too stable, too many plugins, too many programmers can support it, designers can make templates for it with ease etc, all hosters support it for next to nothing etc and without setup.
I think Jekyll is highly underrated. It's so liberating hosting a static site on GH and not paying a single cent for it.
Not hard to make the connection between SCMs (like Git) and CMSs, one could even say SCM is a form of CMS, just a focus on code instead of general "content". Add a way to render content and serve it, and you have a CMS.